South Africa’s first climate case at the Constitutional Court has blocked Shell’s oil and gas exploration off the Wild Coast, protecting coastal communities.
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Brazil holds 12% of the world’s freshwater reserves and yet growing water insecurity reveals some of the country’s deepest sanitation inequalities, which are particularly relevant to Marajó, its largest coastal island.
Reducing the risks of increased heat in the UK without compromising climate targets requires policy interventions, investment and a strong political will.
About 4% of UK homes have air conditioning, concentrated in wealthier households.
How to place disabled people, who are some of the most vulnerable, at the centre of climate change negotiations.
As the UK gets hotter, children will seek water to cool down. The real question is why so many have so few places to go.
A landmark climate case before the African Court asks what African states must do to protect human rights, phase out fossil fuels, and tackle climate change.
Some parts of the world are warming far faster than other, but even within the same city some neighbourhoods are exposed and suffer more than others.
Climate risk assessments guide how much funding is available to support climate impacts and need to work out which women are worst affected.
South Africa’s largest gold producer went to court to win the right to use its own solar power.
The G20’s legacy so far has been to preserve capitalist financial systems.
Some African countries have consumer protection laws that they could use to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for pretending to be green.
What to look out for at Cop30.
Africa’s second climate summit agreed that climate finance to Africa must be a legal obligation and that every country on the continent should have a climate law.
Green lawyers are using the new global climate change legal opinion to challenge Shell in South Africa, and resist the expansion of fossil fuel industries.
There is growing recognition that the breakdown of the global climate, and vulnerability to its effects, are deeply rooted in histories of colonialism.
Two South African insurance companies are suing the government after large companies suffered catastrophic damage in 2022 floods.
State-contingent debt instruments allow countries hit by economic and climate crises to restructure their debt repayments.
The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions.
For the UN Pact for the Future to be successful, there has to be a focus on environmental and social justice, an influx of cash and resources, and an incorporation of new technologies.
Top contributors
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Director of the Mandela Institute, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Legal Researcher, PhD Candidate and Lead of the African Climate Law Programme, Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Justice, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Bradford
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Associate Researcher in Climate Change and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic