Research

Publications

Papers, working drafts and research outputs from the Climpact project on the impacts of climate litigation.

Climpact publications

Peer-reviewed articles, working papers, reports and datasets produced by the Climpact research team as the project advances.

• Contenzioso Climatico e Diritti Umani: Itinerario globale attorno al sindacato giurisdizionale sugli obblighi di mitigazione di stati e imprese — Naglieri G. — Giappichelli — 2026 — For three decades, how far states had to go in cutting emissions was a matter left to politics. The Paris Agreement made that choice deliberately, declining to impose justiciable obligations on any individual state and leaving the pace of ambition to the parties themselves. Within ten years, courts across legal systems with little in common have unsettled that arrangement. Pressed by a transnational community of litigants, they have read into human rights the obligations the climate regime had been built to keep out of reach. The book starts with cases brought against states at home, turns to the newer and far less settled wave of cases against transnational corporations, and ends with the 2…