Facing Climate Change in the Courtroom Requires Innovative Touch

Attorneys who litigate climate cases are forging ahead with novel claims to take governments and industry to task over the consequences of a warming planet, often with a limited set of legal tools at their disposal.

Climate litigation has exploded in recent years, creating a thicket of issues and forcing attorneys to adopt innovative tactics under a slim timeline that they say is fraught with pressures.

“It can at times feel a little bit hopeless because of how urgent and how much of an emergency the problem really is,” Center for Biological Diversity attorney Kristen Monsell told Bloomberg Law. ...