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Lucy Maxwell
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Human rights and climate justice | Co-Director, Climate Litigation Network, Urgenda Foundation. Usual disclaimers
Next TUES is a major moment for climate action

European Court of Human Rights will decide on 3 climate cases

Significant for the global movement of climate litigation, to ramp up governments' action

Bravo to Youth4Climate Justice, KlimaSeniorinnen, and Damien Careme

Watch for live updates!
April 5, 2024 at 10:50 AM
As we await next week's European Court decisions -- our thoughts on the next frontier for climate cases, based on 8+ years of climate litigation against governments, with Sarah Mead and April Williamson

Sneak peek -- THREE predictions 🧵

blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
Future Trends in Climate Litigation Against Governments - Climate Law Blog
We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. The world is on track to experience 3°C of warming and the “window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all” is rapi...
blogs.law.columbia.edu
April 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Call for papers! We're supporting an online symposium on ‘Strategic Litigation on Climate Equality’ in September

Let's discuss how climate litigation can better address the disproportionate impacts of the climate crisis.

Abstracts due 28 March. Details: shorturl.at/knSX6
February 23, 2024 at 3:28 AM
We're hiring! Job postings close this week

Join the Climate Litigation Network 🌱

We're growing our team, hiring for:
Senior Legal Associate shorturl.at/puBN7
Legal Associate shorturl.at/puBN7
Operations Associate shorturl.at/uBR46

Assessed on rolling basis; deadline 24 Jan!
January 22, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Ten reasons why the SUCCESSFUL Belgian Climate Case by @Klimaatzaak is a globally significant win – for communities around the world. Thread 🧵

There are 40+ similar cases pending against governments – in Italy 🇮🇹 Sth Korea 🇰🇷 Australia 🇦🇺 Canada 🇨🇦 Sweden 🇸🇪 Turkey 🇹🇷 Poland 🇵🇱
December 5, 2023 at 11:42 AM
More climate case WINS -- German Government ordered by court to take immediate climate action. Congratulations
to Deutsche Umwelthilfe (NGO who brought the case!)

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
December 1, 2023 at 10:25 AM
BREAKING: Climate case WIN in Belgian Climate Case -- just out! Government ORDERED to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared w. 47% target under EU framework)

Very significant globally: Govt ordered to INCREASE AMBITION of GHG target. Congrats to all at Klimaatzaak
twitter.com/Klimaatzaak/...
November 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM