This event marks the launch of the Grantham Research Institute’s (GRI) Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation 2025 Snapshot report, an annual report now in its seventh year.
This influential report presents an overview of the global field of climate litigation. The report explains developments in legal cases that seek to advance climate action, holding governments and companies to account for their failure to adequately mitigate or adapt to climate change. The report also explains how the courts are being used in the backlash against climate action from vested interests in the US and elsewhere. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and of the delivery of judgments in three major climate change cases in the Netherlands, Pakistan and the US, all of which contributed to a “rights-turn” in climate litigation (Peel and Osofsky, 2018). This year’s report reflects on the impact that these cases have had over the past decade, considering both their influence on the development of global climate change law and their influence outside the courtroom.
Meet our speakers and chair
Danielle de Andrade Moreira is an adjunct professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where she works with the Postgraduate Program in Law and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Environment (NIMA/PUC-Rio). She coordinates the Law, Environment, and Justice in the Anthropocene (JUMA) research group at NIMA/PUC-Rio. Dr Moreira leads a research project tracking developments in climate litigation across Brazil.
Joana Setzer is Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at LSE. Dr Setzer is also the Co-lead of the Mobilizing political, legal and governance systems theme of LSE’s new Global School of Sustainability and the lead author of the Global Trends in Climate Litigation Snapshot Report series.
Margaretha Werewinke-Singh is Associate Professor of Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam and co-founder of SEVEN, the university’s climate institute. She is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Fiji and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Larry Kramer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE since April 2024. A constitutional scholar, university administrator, and philanthropic leader, he was previously the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Dean of Stanford Law School.
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