Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa

Kim Bouwer is Assistant Professor at the University of Durham. Uzuazo Etemire is Associate Professor at the University of Port Harcourt. Tracy-Lynn Field is Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, and Claude Leon Chair in Earth Justice and Stewardship. Ademola Oluborode Jegede is Professor at the University of Venda.

• 1. Africa, Climate Justice and the Role of the Courts – Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode JegedePart 1: Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers 2. Towards a Risk-Thematic Approach for African Climate Litigation - Tracy-Lynn Field3. State Duty to ‘Protect’ Rights and Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation – Ademola Oluborode Jegede4. Litigation against Coal-fired Power in South Africa: Lessons from and for global Climate Litigation to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions – Nicole Loser 5. Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in Cameroon - Daniel Armel Owona MbargaPart 2: Rights-Based Approaches 6. The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change Before the African Regional Human Rights Bodies - Elsabe Boshoff7. Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law-Based Approach – Judge John Mativo8. The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate – Fiona Batt9. Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation against Private Actors – Pia Rebelo10. Different Roads to the Same Destination: Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the Role of Human Rights in the Mitigation of Climate Change – Sanita van WykPart 3: Justice, Equity and Activism11. Climate Change and Multinationals in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice - Eghosa O. Ekhator12. Law and Climate Change in North African Countries: Morocco as a Case Study - Riyad Fakhri and Youness Lazrak Hassouni13. Climate Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria: Legal Opportunities and Gender Perspectives - Pedi Obani14. Future citizens: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Activism - Bright Nkrumah

"An immense and comprehensive contribution to legal scholarship on climate law and litigation. This is going to be a lasting compendium and reference. I have nothing but praise for the editors and authors of this volume." Saliem Fakir, The African Climate Foundation