Edited by Camille Cameron KC and Patricia Galvão Ferreira, Dalhousie University and Riley Weyman, Pape Salter Teillet LLP, Canada

• ContentsForeword xii1 The climate governance tightrope: novel strategies and the role of courts in climate change 1Patricia Galvao Ferreira, Camille Cameron, and Riley Weyman2 Mathur v Ontario: youth-led constitutional challenge to government climate policy lights the path to future recognition of climate rights in Canada 20Erin Dobbelsteyn and Nathalie Chalifour3 Lliuya v RWE – introducing polluter pays via transnational climate litigation? 50Olaf Dilling and Romina Luz Schaller4 Common law at the coal face: Smith v Fonterra and others 73Vernon Rive5 Centre for Oil Pollution Watch (COPW) v Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC): locus standi and the emerging trends in climate litigation in Nigeria 105Funmi Abioye6 Human rights as procedural due process in climate mitigation policies: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v. Switzerland 127Johannes Reich7 A constitutional duty to deploy climate finance: PSB et al v Brazil (Climate Fund) 163Gabriel Mantelli, Matheus Henrique Cano, Isabela Bicalho, and Marie-Louise Siemons8 Held v Montana: climate science takes the stand 191Jarryd Page and Helene Krasnoff 9 Misdzi Yikh v Canada: indigenizing rights-based climate litigation 219 Benjamin Ralston 10 Promoting climate litigation via industrial law and policy? Chinese climate litigation in context 248 Mingzhe Zhu 11 When corporate and financial law goes green: Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Mercer Superannuation (Australia) Limited 276 Rebekkah Markey-Towler 12 Threatened birds meet creative judges: India’s climate litigation takes flight in MK Ranjitsinh and Others v Union of India and Others 301 Parul Kumar

‘This volume offers an incisive and richly textured account of how courts across the world are shaping the frontiers of climate governance. Spanning all continents and bringing together a remarkable diversity of jurisdictions, perspectives, and voices, it demonstrates how climate litigation has become a rapidly evolving field in which novel arguments, procedural innovations, and shifting scientific and normative baselines are redefining what is possible. Through rigorous case analyses, the contributors illuminate the transformative potential — and the practical limits — of litigation to clarify obligations, expand constitutional and human rights protections, demand accountability from states and corporations, and secure meaningful remedies. This book is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand how landmark decisions from the Global South and Global North together are reshaping the legal landscape in the era of climate crisis.’