lang: en
Summary
This resource is a book that provides an overview of existing law and potential directions for climate change liability in seventeen countries and the European Union. It explores the legal, scientific, and policy aspects of holding governments, industry, and other actors liable for climate change damage. The book includes chapters on national laws across multiple regions and highlights high-profile cases such as Massachusetts vs. Environmental Protection Agency in the United States.
Background
Frustration mounts at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and the likelihood of significant impacts grows. The focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage, implicating governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, individuals, and legal practitioners.
What happened
The book provides an objective, rigorous, and accessible overview of existing law and the direction it might take in seventeen developed and developing countries and the European Union [source: nv-database]. In some jurisdictions, the applicable law is less developed and less the subject of current debate, while in others, actions for various kinds of climate change liability have already been brought, including high profile cases such as Massachusetts vs. [source: nv-database] Environmental Protection Agency in the United States [source: nv-database]. Each chapter explores the potential for and barriers to climate change liability in private and public law [source: nv-database].
Key people & organizations
- Brunnee, Jutta
- Goldberg, Silke
- Lord, Richard
- Rajamani, Lavanya
- Cambridge University Press
Tactics used
None recorded in the source.
Outcome
Verdict: unknown.
Source did not describe the outcome in detail.
Lessons
None surfaced from the source.
Sources
Disclaimer: Included as a teaching example of campaign craft, not as endorsement.
Sources & verification
nv-database— grounding: primary — license: link-only- Rewritten: 2026-06-25 via
worker_casestudies_v2.py