Climate litigation research
Climate litigation is exploding worldwide. But does it actually work?
Beyond verdicts and headlines, Climpact measures how climate litigation drives real change — across law, policy, business and society. 500 cases, open access.
Climate litigation is exploding worldwide. But does it actually work ?
Climpact is the first large-scale empirical research project to answer that question with systematic evidence — analysing 500 cases, around 20% of all global climate litigation , to reveal if, how, when and why courtroom battles translate into real-world change.
Is climate litigation reshaping law and governance , markets and corporate decisions , society and public discourse? Climpact measures if, how, when, how much and why.
Beyond verdicts and headlines, Climpact traces 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. A groundbreaking open-access database will replace anecdotal evidence with robust findings about when, how and why litigation drives change.
- 500 — Cases analysed across legal, social and economic domains.
- ~20% — Of all global climate litigation, represented in the sample.
- Open access — A database built to make the evidence freely available to all.
How litigation translates into tangible change
- Policy & regulation — The regulatory frameworks that shift — how rulings ripple into laws, policy and concrete government action on climate.
- Corporate & markets — The corporate practices that adapt and the market dynamics that respond as high-emitting companies face legal pressure.
- Society & discourse — The public narratives that evolve — how landmark cases reshape media attention and the wider debate on the climate crisis.
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