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How to support children fronting climate lawsuits

How to support children fronting climate lawsuits

How can young climate litigants can be better supported while respecting their agency as rational people with a genuine stake in the outcomes? Childhood can be both magical and terrifying; you are buffeted about by the winds of society but have no clear way of shaping them. Having to navigate

ClientEarth CEO: More lawsuits against company directors ‘will absolutely come’

ClientEarth CEO: More lawsuits against company directors ‘will absolutely come’

Corporate boards have only just seen the start of climate litigation, according to the boss of ClientEarth. Speaking to The Wave ahead of a talk at the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol, UK, CEO Laura Clarke says her organisation is making a “big push” on linking fiduciary duties and climate

Climate Case Ireland: Three years on

Climate Case Ireland: Three years on

In 2020, an environmental group won a landmark legal battle against the Irish government, when the Supreme Court declared that its emission-cutting plans fell “well short” of what was required to meet its climate commitments and ordered it to replace them with a more ambitious strategy. But three years on,

The 'one shot' campaign to get a strong legal statement on climate change

The 'one shot' campaign to get a strong legal statement on climate change

The campaign to get the International Court of Justice to write an advisory opinion on climate change had a major victory earlier this year, but its work has only just begun Vishal Prasad wasn't one of the initial group of students at the University of the South Pacific

'A revolutionary time': How law and science are working together to secure the rights of nature

'A revolutionary time': How law and science are working together to secure the rights of nature

Climate change and biodiversity loss are intimately linked, and there are useful lessons for those involved in both topics to learn from each other. This month we look at how science can support legal cases on the rights of nature Mika Peck was studying the brown-headed spider monkey, a critically

How the Montana youth trial was reported around the world

How the Montana youth trial was reported around the world

The Montana youth climate case was first climate-related constitutional challenge to government conduct to make it to trial in the US. The Wave rounds up and analyses coverage of this important climate litigation milestone. Unless you’d decided to undergo a severe digital detox over the past month, it’s

All aboard! Should courts get ready for the climate whistleblowers?

All aboard! Should courts get ready for the climate whistleblowers?

Will there be an increase in people whistleblowing on their employers' climate change impacts, and will people be protected for doing so? Desiree Fixler made headlines two years ago for exposing corporate greenwashing at Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm DWS Group. In her former job as the group’