Uncharted waters: where do SIDS fit into the recent explosion in climate litigation?

Podcast: Small Islands Big Picture · ODI Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)

Opublikowano: 2024-11-07

Since the Paris Agreement of 2015, legal action around climate change has grown. This takes many forms, from community groups and public bodies suing oil companies, to international litigation by states within multilateral courts. The most prominent initiative is the pursuit of an “Advisory Opinion” at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the “Obligations of States in respect of climate change” pursued tenaciously by a very small state, Vanuatu. In this episode, Emily and Matt make sense of this phenomenon by asking who is leading these initiatives, why they are gathering steam, and which hold out the greatest promise of succe...