Climate Litigation and Vulnerabilities

Maria Antonia Tigre is the Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, United States. She is originally from Brazil.Melanie Jean Murcott is a South African intersectional climate justice scholar, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Susan Ann Samuel is a lawyer in India and a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds – School of Politics and International Studies, United Kingdom.

• Introduction: Linking Global South Vulnerability, Intersectionality, and Climate Litigation, Melanie Jean Murcott, Maria Antonia Tigre, Susan Ann Samuel; Part I: Exposing the Limits of Litigation as a Mechanism for Intersectional Climate Justice; 1. Facing Coloniality within Legal Systems: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American Climate Litigation, Elisa Fiorini Beckhauser and Valeriana Augusta Broetto; 2. Reframing Climate Change Litigation in the Global South: A Study of Wind Energy Projects and Extractivism in India, Ayan Garg and Nitai Vishal Hinduja; 3. Addressing Health Crises through Courts? Understanding Inequality in Latin America’s Climate Litigation, Thalia Viveros Uehara; 4. The Inclusion of Women and Girls in Climate Adaptation Policy in India: Opportunities and Challenges for Future Litigation, Moushita Dutta and Katherine Lofts; Part 2 - Innovative Litigation in Pursuit of Intersectional Climate Justice 5. Elevating Women’s Voices in Transnational Climate Litigation: The Case of Asmania et al. v Holcim, Nina Burri and Laura Duarte Reyes; 6. Forum Shopping in Climate Litigation? Three Cases Involving the Torres Strait Islands, James Barrett; 7. The Need for Child-Led Climate Litigation in Bangladesh: Lessons from India and Pakistan, Preetkiran Kaur, Sathiabama S. and Vedavalli S.; 8. A Human Rights Approach to Environmental Protection (HRAEP) as a Tool for Fostering Climate-Resilience for the Nigerian Woman, Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan and Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe; 9. A Litigation Strategy for Vulnerable Communities Pursuing Climate Litigation: The Indian Iteration of the Precautionary Principle and the Reversal of the Burden of Proof, Kanika Jamwal; 10. Conclusion: Key Lessons and A Future Research Agenda for Climate Litigation and Vulnerabilities, Maria Antonia Tigre, Melanie Jean Murcott, and Susan Ann Samuel.

"A groundbreaking compilation, this book offers a unique blend of theoretical and practical insights on climate litigation in the Global South. With a focus on vulnerabilities and intersectionality, the editors bring together a diverse range of voices to provide a framework for understanding the disproportionate impacts of climate change and the role of courts in addressing them. The book's contributors explore innovative ways litigation can be more responsive to the lived realities of affected communities, and relay novel perspectives and strategies rooted in local contexts. A significant contribution to the field of climate litigation, this volume reshapes how we think about climate justice and legal accountability in a rapidly changing world." — Michael Burger, Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University