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Lottie Limb

‘A two-way street’: Major report shows top courts are increasingly a battleground for climate action

People pursuing legal action over climate change are increasingly finding their cases reach the world’s highest courts, the largest analysis to date finds. 

Between 2015 and 2024, 276 climate-related cases ended up in apex courts – such as supreme and constitutional courts – according to the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In a longer stretch from 1995 to the end of 2024, just over 360 cases went the distance.

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