Turning Up the Heat: Corporate Legal Accountability for Climate Change

Strategic litigation encourages corporate accountability for climate change and broader corporate accountability movements when governments have repeatedly failed to take steps to adequately combat climate change.  Climate lawsuits against companies are the result of increased collaboration between concerned individuals, cities, human rights and climate advocates, scientists and expert litigators, who have combined their respective expertise and strategies for corporate accountability.  This briefing demonstrates that communities and advocates are increasingly using the courts to generate change and confront companies on their responsibility for climate harm as well as the
opportunities and challenges of climate change litigation against companies.