Initiatives
Beyond research: building ecosystems of knowledge and practice
Climpact's impact extends far beyond producing academic outputs. We're building an interconnected ecosystem of activities designed to translate our research into actionable knowledge, foster dialogue across stakeholders, and create enduring infrastructure for climate litigation scholarship.
We’ll advance scholarly debate on climate litigation impacts by creating spaces where the global academic community engages with methodologies, exchanges findings, challenges assumptions, and collectively pushes the field forward. We’ll strengthen our own research through continuous dialogue with leading experts across disciplines and jurisdictions. We’ll ensure research reaches and informs the communities shaping climate litigation—practitioners, policymakers, corporate actors, and civil society. And we’ll build lasting networks that sustain collaboration and knowledge production beyond any single project's timeline. Through our workshops & conferences, publications, forums, conversations, fellowships, and monitoring activities, Climpact functions as both a research contributor and a knowledge hub—advancing academic scholarship on climate litigation impacts while connecting it to action, ensuring research contributes to both theoretical understanding and effective, evidence-based climate governance.
Explore Each Initiative
Climpact workshops & conferences series
Climpact team hosts international workshops and conferences on climate litigation. Workshops examine specific analytical and methodological challenges. Conferences bring together scholars working on climate litigation's evolution, strategic patterns, and effects across jurisdictions. These convenings advance collective understanding of litigation's role in climate governance while creating space for critical engagement with Climpact's emerging findings.
Climpact monitor series
Regular publications analyzing climate litigation developments globally: research reports examining doctrinal trends and case patterns, working papers on litigation's implications, analytical briefs for practitioners and scholars on developments across jurisdictions and case types.
Climpact outreach series
All activities connecting research with broader audiences beyond academia. This includes forums bringing together researchers and practitioners—litigators, policymakers, corporate actors, civil society organizations—examining climate litigation's evolution and dynamics. It also comprises public lectures, media engagement, stakeholder briefings, and other dissemination activities ensuring Climpact's findings reach and inform diverse communities.
Climpact conversation series
Podcast interviews and extended conversations with litigators, judges, policymakers, and corporate actors shaping climate litigation, exploring case strategies, innovations, judicial developments, and governance implications.
Climpact network & fellows
The Fellows Network maintains ongoing scholarly exchange among a network of scholars working on climate litigation from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Visiting researcher programs enabling scholars to collaborate with Climpact's team on climate litigation research.