High-profile and successful cases, such as Milieudefensie v. Royal Dutch Shell, and Sustaining The Wild Coast v. Minister of Mineral Resources, illustrate the role that litigation can play as a way for stakeholders (citizen groups and communities) to challenge structures of power, such as governments and fossil fuel corporations, to hold them accountable for the harm they cause to people and the planet through both unsustainable governance and practices.
Co-organised with the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, this forum convenes Joana Setzer (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment), Melanie Murcott (University of Cape Town), and Kelly Matheson (Our Children’s Trust) for a critical reflection on the transformative potential of climate litigation.
ABOUT THE PATHWAYS FORUM
The Pathways Forum is a bi-monthly online event where researchers from diverse disciplines who engage, or want to engage, with societal actors in processes of adaptive learning to design, implement, and evaluate pathways to sustainability get a chance to reflect on concepts and theories of change, and discuss the practical implications of sustainability science and transdisciplinarity for research practices. Through this webinar series, the Pathways Initiative aims to develop and support agenda-setting, synthesis and capacity building around pathways for sustainability.