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J. Spier, Climate Litigation in a Changing World

Eleven, The Hague, 2023, 609 pp., ISBN 978-94-6236-326-7

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  1. Lahore High Court 4 September 2015, Case No. W.P. No. 25501/2015.

  2. Supreme Court of the Netherlands 20 December 2019, ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2006.

  3. The Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (adopted 19 June 2023, not yet entered into force) addresses climate change in the preamble and Arts. 7(h) and 17(c).

  4. Supreme Court of Chile 9 August 2021, Case No. 25.530–2021.

  5. District Court of The Hague 26 May 2021, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2021:5337.

  6. Arts. 3 and 4(2) of the Paris Agreement (adopted 7 December 2015, entered into force 4 November 2016).

  7. Closing speech of COP28 by the United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, https://unfccc.int/news/we-didn-t-turn-the-page-on-the-fossil-fuel-era-but-this-outcome-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-un.

  8. Pending, filed in November 2021 at the Regional Court of Braunschweig, Germany.

  9. In Greek mythology, however, Medusa had two other gorgon sisters, Stheno and Euryale. Unlike Medusa they were immortal, which raises the worrisome question of which global challenges they could represent in the comparison.

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Baars, L.P. J. Spier, Climate Litigation in a Changing World. Neth Int Law Rev 70, 407–412 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00248-6

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