What Role Can Climate Change Play in the Courtroom? – State of the Planet
Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law focuses on four program areas: cross-cutting issues and initiatives, energy law, environmental and land use law, and international and foreign law. As the number of legal efforts involving each of these categories continues to grow, the center has positioned itself as a resource hub for tracking and analyzing global climate change litigation.
In a lecture at the Columbia Climate School Research Seminar Series, Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center, discussed the direction climate change cases have taken in the courtroom in recent years—and what these lawsuits may mean for current and future regulation, policy and response.
Burger began his presentation with an overview of significant developments in climate litigation,...