The book Climate Change Litigation - Liability and Damages from a Comparative Perspective
investigates and discusses the respective issues arising in the current discourse on climate
protection from different legal perspectives (including International law European law and
national public and civil law). In particular it addresses the issue of climate protection by
courts. It gives an overview about important jurisdictions in the field of Climate Change
Litigation including inter alia the US Canada Australia UK France The Netherlands Italy
Brazil and Germany. The evergreater more wide-spread and more violent effects of climate
change in recent history have brought forth an unprecedented rise in societal discourse in the
field of climate change. Naturally this discourse is portrayed with its concomitant effects in
court: The lawsuits initiated by human rights organisations against large corporations (e.g.
against the energy giant RWE before German Courts) and states (e.g. against the Netherlands)
have attracted significant media attention especially. As a result climate change litigation
is in the course of establishing itself into an independent branch of environmental law and
international law which is most likely to be one of the major legal markets of the future.
Building upon this Climate Change Litigation - Liability and Damages from a Comparative
Perspective aims to pave the way for research in the field of climate change litigation which
up to this point has surprisingly remained untrodden ground in Germany or Europe. Published as
a handbook this text provides answers and ideas both to scholars and practitioners in this
legal field. Furthermore it is guaranteed to provide an overview of the latest news in cases
and progress in the field of climate change litigation. Outline of the Handbook Fundamental
questions of climate change litigation Procedural Issues and Conflict of Laws State Liability
under International and European Law Duties of protection following from Human Rights Climate
Change Litigation - National Reports Liability for Climate Damages - Germany as an
International Pioneer? The editors Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Kahl is Director of the
Institute for German and European Administrative Law at Heidelberg University. He is also the
Director of the Research Centre for Sustainability Law. His focused areas of research include
Administrative Law Environmental Law European and International Administrative Law and
Constitutional Law. Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller is Director of the Institute of Conflict of
Laws Comparative Law and International Business Law at Heidelberg University. The authors are
leading scholars and practitioners from all over the world in the field of climate change
litigation. The target group For practitioners and academics in the field of Climate Change
Litigation or Environmental law and International law.
