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Meet the CLIMPACT team.

22 September 2026

Meet the CLIMPACT team. CLIMPACT — Charting the Landscape of Climate Litigation Impacts: An Interdisciplinary Framework and Open Access Database — is a four-year project funded by the Italian Fund for Science and hosted at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Its starting point is a question that has become pressing as climate cases multiply and reach the highest courts: what does litigation actually change, once the judgment has been handed down? Answering it means looking beyond the legal record, into policy, judicial practice and public debate, and it requires methods that law alone cannot supply. Over the next four years we will follow 500 cases from around the world to find out. The team has been assembled with that question in mind. Giuseppe Naglieri , Principal Investigator, is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bari, where he teaches Comparative Constitutional Justice and Comparative Climate Change Law and Litigation. He designed the project and coordinates its research across all areas. Three postdoctoral researchers carry the core of the analysis. In the legal, judicial and policy area, Carlotta Garofalo , a comparative constitutional law scholar with a doctorate from the University of Graz, traces how government-target litigation shapes public policy, while Enrico Buono , Ph.D. in Comparative Law and Integration Processes and recipient of the SIRD Younger Comparatists Prize, examines what those same cases change within the courts. Costanza Azzuppardi , postdoctoral researcher in sociology and Ph.D. candidate at the Scuola Normale Superiore, brings the social sciences into the project: her work concerns how climate litigation moves through public opinion, media narratives and civil society. Three PhD students, enrolled in the Programme in Rights, Economies and Culture of the Mediterranean at the Jonic Department of the University of Bari, complete the research team. Ciro Saracino works on judicial cross-fertilisation and the transnational circulation of principles and arguments in climate litigation. Michela D'Erchia studies climate cases concerning project authorisations. Gabriel Andres Rojas Verdugo , a lawyer trained in environmental sciences, examines the implementation and enforcement of climate judgments in comparative perspective. Three colleagues of the University of Bari contribute to the project as faculty members: Luca Dell'Atti , Tenure-Track Assistant Professor; Maria Dicosola , Associate Professor; and Pamela Martino , Full Professor of Comparative Public Law. The team will keep growing. New colleagues will join CLIMPACT in the coming months, and we will introduce them here as they arrive. Full profiles are available on climpact.it , where our monthly newsletter can also be read in its web version. Over the coming months we look forward to sharing the work of each member of the team.