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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 1h

🌎Check out our October #Newsletter! buff.ly/myduIaS. Highlights include:

💻 Spotlight on The Climate Litigation Database
🌆 Climate Week NYC 2025 Recap – 7 events and key takeaways
📘 UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report 2025
🧠 ICJ & IACtHR Symposium #Blog Posts

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 20h

This #webinar is happening tomorrow at 10 AM EST! ⤵️

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 1d

💻⚖️🌏 Register for @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social's #webinar on October 8 to join experts from the Sabin Center,
@granthamicl.bsky.social and @biicl.bsky.social as they review global climate litigation. The presentation will demonstrate the new Climate Litigation Database: buff.ly/l86RRwy

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 1d

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 1d

💻⚖️🌏 Register for @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social's #webinar on October 8 to join experts from the Sabin Center,
@granthamicl.bsky.social and @biicl.bsky.social as they review global climate litigation. The presentation will demonstrate the new Climate Litigation Database: buff.ly/l86RRwy

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Markus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 3d

Such an important report - impressive work by @sabincenter.bsky.social @matigre.bsky.social and the @unep.org Law team. You ignore climate law at your peril.

UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 5d

Climate change has entered the courtroom. Around the world, legal action is emerging as a powerful driver for #ClimateAction and accountability.

Discover UNEP’s latest report on how climate litigation is reshaping global climate policy: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 4d

🌍📖 📣 The Sabin Center & @unep.org release its Global Climate Litigation Report: 2025 Status Review, finding that 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy! buff.ly/XsUkHcP
Blog ➡️ buff.ly/layD4JU
Press Release ➡️ buff.ly/LJuGEbm

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 5d

Climate change has entered the courtroom. Around the world, legal action is emerging as a powerful driver for #ClimateAction and accountability.

Discover UNEP’s latest report on how climate litigation is reshaping global climate policy: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 5d

💡 ⚖️ 🌍 The summaries of all new climate cases and decisions are available here: buff.ly/XUMNhBP

Climate Litigation Updates (October 3, 2025) | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law publishes summaries of developments in climate-related litigation twice each month. We also add these developments to The Climate Litigation Database. If you…

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 5d

📰 ⚖️ Check out our October Edition of the #ClimateLitigation Newsletter: buff.ly/Zm5N0S6

Highlights include:
🚀 Launch of the Climate Litigation Database
🌍 US & Global Case Highlights and full udpate
📚 New blog posts & publication
📆 Upcoming Webinar

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 6d

📅 🌊 On Tuesday, October 14, please join us for a #webinar on the background and recent ocean-based carbon removal & sequestration activities under the 2 treaties: 📜 the London Convention and 📜 the London Protocol.
More 💡 : buff.ly/sWStfoJ
Register ➡️ buff.ly/bSwYnMN

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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 7d

My contribution to the @verfassungsblog.de and @sabincenter.bsky.social joint symposium on the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion is out!

In short : the Court insists on cooperation but avoids defining what a fair allocation of burdens requires
🔗 blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Cooperation Without Justice? On the Elusive Differentiation of Responsibilities in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion - Climate Law Blog

Climate change is both a global crisis that binds humanity to a shared fate – a “common concern for humankind” – as well as the revealer of historical inequalities on the international stage, rooted i...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 8d

💼 🔈 We are proud to welcome Andrew Kieffer as the new fellow at our Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative. His work will focus on identifying legal pathways to challenge land-use and siting barriers which impede the development of renewable energy and delay the #energytransition: buff.ly/fpY79bE

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 9d

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Be sure to check out our newly launched Climate Litigation Database ➡️ www.climatecasechart.com

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

For access to all of our resources, please visit our Resources page.

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 9d

That's a wrap on #ClimateWeekNYC2025! Thank you so much to everyone who attended our events last week!

🌎We, @ the Sabin Center, explore complex issues in #climate and #energy law @ both the domestic & international levels & provide cutting edge legal research & tools to combat the #climatecrisis

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 11d

The invaluable @sabincenter.bsky.social Climate Litigation Database now combines their U.S. and Global resources into a single, unified platform blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Relaunching the Climate Litigation Database: Tracking the Law in a New Era - Climate Law Blog

When lawsuits first began to raise climate change issues in the late 1980s, the cases were rare and experimental, with litigants testing out ways to draw on the growing body of climate science to argu...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 11d

📝 Blog Post: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
📢 Press Release: climate.law.columbia.edu/news/sabin-c... @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social

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drhershkowitz.bsky.social @drhershkowitz.bsky.social · 11d

“More than 3,000 climate change litigation cases & over 15,000 case documents are instantly accessible online & can be searched & analyzed using advanced machine learning & natural language processing tools.” @sabincenter.bsky.social @nrdc.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social
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⚖️🌏🚀Special Edition of Climate Litigation (September 26, 2025)

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 11d

⭐⭐⭐We have a special edition of the Climate Litigation Newsletter in honor of the Climate Litigation Database 2.0 Relaunch in partnership with @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social. Huge thank you to everyone who attended the launch event yesterday!
View the newsletter here: mailchi.mp/law/sabin-ce...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 13d

#climateweeknyc @climategroup.bsky.social

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 13d

💽⚖️🌍Live unveiling of The Climate Litigation Database, powered by state of the art technology! climatecasechart.com @climatepolicyradar.bsky.social

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 13d

⚖️🌍 Opening remarks by Faculty Founder @michaelgerrard.bsky.social, who introduces the background to our Climate Litigation Database.

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 13d

(@climatepolicyradar.bsky.social). @climategroup.bsky.social
RSVP Here: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 13d

📅#EVENT ALERT! Join us TODAY, September 25th, during #ClimateWeekNYC for the launch of the newly revamped U.S. & Global Climate Litigation Databases, developed & maintained by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law in partnership with Climate Policy Radar

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 13d

📗🌏⚖️Catch up on your reading on #climatelitigation by checking out the new #blog posts under the Climate Reparations Blog Series: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang... #humanrights #climatechange #internationallaw

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