Literature

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 * 1) Climate Litigation Strategies (ELAW, no date) This document narrates the development of some trials against climate change, emphasizing the arguments considered in the trial.
 * 2) ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: Establishing Facts for Strategic Climate Litigation Through Private-Public Partnerships. (Reinhold Gallmetzer, 2020) This text talk about the importance of Strategic Climate Litigation Through Private-Public Partnerships, the document states that technological developments enable NGOs and concerned citizens to strategically trigger and support legal proceedings by collecting and providing relevant and probative information that establishes the factual foundation for these proceedings.
 * 3) 2019: The Year Climate Litigation Hit High Gear (Climate Liability News, 2019)This text talks about the most relevant climate litigation of 2019, which creates bases for future lawsuits.
 * 4) Climate Necessity Defense Case Guide: A Guide for Activists and Attorneys (Climate Defense Project, 2019) This is a guide for activists and attorneys about the climate necessity defense. It is a political-legal tool used by climate activists to justify and draw attention to protest actions taken in defense of the climate. The requirements of a necessity defense vary by jurisdiction but usually require a showing that the defendant:
 * 5) Faced imminent danger
 * 6) Took action to prevent that danger through less harmful means
 * 7) Reasonably anticipated that the action would prevent the danger
 * 8) Had no reasonable legal alternative to the action
 * 9) El aporte del derecho procesal constitucional al litigio estratégico sobre el cambio climático: comentarios a los casos urgenda y juliana (Silvia Bagni, 2019)(in Spanish) Academic document which explains the experience of two strategic litigations against climate change (Urgenda and Juliana), listing the arguments and showing the applicable national and international legal frameworks for this type of litigation.
 * 10) The status of climate change litigation ( United Nations Environment Programme, 2017) 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.
 * 11) Courting Disaster: Climate Change and the Adjudication of Catastrophe (R. Henry Weaver & Douglas A. Kysar 2017) This article talks about how climate change destabilizes the concept of law. It explains how the regulatory order is increasingly fragile in the face of the complexity of the problems caused by climate change.
 * 12) Climate Justice: The international momentum towards climate litigation (Keely Boom, Julie-Anne Richards and Stephen Leonard, 2016) 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 what benefits they contribute to the construction of the legal framework on the subject.
 * 13) The Role of Climate Litigation in the Post-Paris World (Track0, 2016) This presentation briefly shows issues that went to court in defense of the environment.
 * 14) OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTOR POLICY PAPER ON CASE SELECTION AND PRIORITISATION (International Criminal Court, 2016) This policy paper sets out the considerations which guide the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in the selection and prioritization of cases for investigation and prosecution. The paper is based on, inter alia, the Rome Statute (“Statute”), the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the Regulations of the Court, the Regulations of the Office, the prosecutorial strategy, and other policy documents of the Office, as well as the experience of the Office over its first decade of activities.
 * 15) Washington State Youth Win Unprecedented Decision in their Climate Change Lawsuit (Our Children's Trust & The Western Environmental Law Center, 2015) this text talks about the young petitioners who filed a petition for rule making to ecology, requesting that the agency promulgate a rule that would limit carbon dioxide emissions in Washington according to what scientists say is needed to protect our oceans and climate system.
 * 16) Holding Corporations Accountable for Damaging the Climate (ELAW, 2014) 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.
 * 17) Carbon Majors: Accounting for carbon and methane emissions 1854-2010  Methods & Results Report (Climate Mitigation Services, 2014) This project traces the origin of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane to the world’s largest extant producers of fossil fuels and cement.
 * 18) WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE CAN DO ABOUT TORT LAW (DOUGLAS A. KYSAR, 2011) This Article offers a speculative discussion on what a barrage of climate change tort suits might do for the development of tort law itself. It  argues that judges likely will not award damages or issue injunctions for climate-related harms, but that they may find themselves affected in other ways by the very process of rejecting such claims. As a result, the tort system may shift to keep in alignment with an administrative state that is increasingly preoccupied by grander and more complicated challenges than the previous century posed.
 * 19) Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice. (2011) This volume looks at climate liability in a big number of jurisdictions.
 * 20) Climate Change Litigation Cases (Milieudefensie, 2007) This document addresses the study of cases that have been brought to court, citing arguments that were used in the trial.