Literature


 * 1) The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The ultimate objective of this Convention is tabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a evel that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with he climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
 * 2) The Kyoto protocol This protocol commits the states parties mainly to promote sustainable development and limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is an instrument to put into practice what has been agreed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
 * 3) The adoption of the Paris agreement The Paris Agreement central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change. To reach these ambitious goals, appropriate financial flows, a new technology framework and an enhanced capacity building framework will be put in place, thus supporting action by developing countries and the most vulnerable countries, in line with their own national objectives.
 * 4) Climate Justice: The international momentum towards climate litigation The Paris agreement is addressed in the document. It shows a list of disputes that develop throughout the world against climate change. It develops cases that have been taken to court, emphasizing the objectives, the impact they have on the legislation, and pointing out what benefits they contribute to the construction of the legal framework on the subject.
 * 5) The status of climate change litigation In the document you can find a record of the litigation that has been developed in the world and highlights the experience of some of them. It shows the importance of litigation in the international arena.
 * 6) El aporte del derecho procesal constitucional al litigio estratégico sobre el cambio climático: comentarios a los casos urgenda y juliana (in Spanish) Academic document which explains the experience of two strategic litigations against climate change (Urgenda and Juliana), indicating the arguments, and showing the applicable national and international legal frameworks for this type of litigation.
 * 7) Climate Change Litigation Cases This document addresses the study of cases that have been brought to court, citing arguments that were used in the trial.
 * 8) Holding Corporations Accountable for Damaging the Climate The document develops the progress in the field of protection of human rights violated as consequences of climate change in various countries (India, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Kenya and Nigeria), noting that these advances have been achieved by legal actions that have been taken to court.
 * 9) Climate Litigation Strategies This document narrates the development of some trials against climate change, emphasizing the arguments considered in the trial.
 * 10) CLIMATE NECESSITY DEFENSE CASE GUIDE A Guide for Activists and Attorneys This is a Guide for Activists and Attorneys abot the climate necessity defense, in this guide explains that is a political-legal tool used by climate activists to justify and draw attention to protest actions taken in defense of the climate. Say that the requirements of a necessity  efense vary by jurisdiction but usually require a showing that the defendant a) faced an imminent danger, b) took action to prevent that danger through less harmful means, c) reasonably anticipated that the action would prevent the danger, and d) had no reasonable legal alternative to the action.