
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.