Climpact kick-off event

Climate litigation is exploding worldwide. But does it actually work?

Climpact is the first large-scale empirical research project to answer this question with systematic evidence. While existing scholarship has documented cases and debated their significance, no one has measured litigation's real-world impacts across legal, social, and economic domains with interdisciplinary methods.

We're analyzing 500 cases—representing approximately 20% of all global climate litigation—to reveal how courtroom battles translate into tangible change in policy, corporate behavior, and societal transformation. Beyond verdicts and headlines, we trace the mechanisms through which litigation generates effects: the regulatory frameworks that shift, the corporate practices that adapt, the public narratives that evolve, the market dynamics that respond.

Our groundbreaking open-access database will replace anecdotal evidence with robust findings about when, how, and why litigation drives change. Because understanding what actually works is the first step to making climate litigation moreeffective.