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Civil Disobedience vs Ecotage and Eco-Terrorism
2008/9 Not guilty: the Greenpeace activists who used climate change as a legal defence
2010/12 Why did Ratcliffe defence fail where Kingsnorth Six succeeded?
2013/1 Montana coal protesters argue necessity defense
2013/6 Climate activists receive sentences for gas-fired power station occupation
2013/9 How to stop a coal train in its tracks
2014/8 ‘Urgency of Climate Change’ to Debut as Legal Defense
2014/8 The climate made me do it!
2014/9 Massachusetts District Attorney Makes History: Recognizes Necessity of Defending Climate
2015/4 Climate-Change Activists Consider the Necessity Defense
2015/4 The New Necessity: Environmental Activists’ Novel Take On the Ancient Criminal Defense
2016/1 Can Breaking the Law Be a Legal Defense?
2016/1 Historic Trial Lets Activists Who Blocked Oil Train Cite Climate Change Threat in Their Defense
2016/1 Trial for Climate Activists Protesting “Bomb Trains” Carrying Oil Makes Legal History
2017/4 Climate Change, Interconnectedness, and Tolerating Personal Risk
2017/5 Judge denies climate activist's necessity defense
2017/10 Climate Necessity Defense Approved by Minnesota Judge
2017/10 Judge Allows 'Necessity' Defense by Climate Activists in Oil Pipeline Protest
2017/10 Spokane judge OK's necessity defense for climate change lawbreaker
2017/10 The Case for Disallowing the Necessity Defense in Climate Change Cases
2017/11 Anti-Pipeline Activist Found Guilty After Being Barred From Mentioning Climate Change
2018/3 “Environmental Extremism” or Necessary Response to Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against the Oil Industry
2018/3 Anti-pipeline campaigners found not guilty by judge because 'protest against climate change crisis' was legal 'necessity'
2018/3 Judge rules civil disobedience a ‘necessity’ to prevent climate change
2018/7 Climate Activists Win in Minnesota Supreme Court, Setting Stage for Historic Climate Necessity Trial
2018/10 In Landmark 'Necessity Defense' Trial, Valve Turners Will Argue Saving the Planet Justified Tar Sand Pipeline Shutdown
2019/2 Calling for 'Unprecedented and Urgent Action' to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4
2019/4 Right to Present Necessity Defense
2019/5 Climate activists win necessity defense trial in London
2019/5 Climate activists win necessity defense trial in London
2019/5 Why the 'Necessity' Defense Is Crucial to the Climate Struggle
2019/7 The necessity defense has hit two climate-related milestones since 2018
2019/9 Washington Supreme Court Establishes 'Very Important Precedent' for Climate Necessity Defense in Case of Valve-Turner Ken Ward
2019/11 Extinction Rebellion protester cleared of criminal damage after arguing her home was under threat from climate change
2020/1 Court Clears Environment Protesters Over Stunt at Swiss Bank
2020/4 Asserting "Climate Necessity" in Defense of Civil Disobedience
2021/4 Jury acquits Extinction Rebellion protesters despite ‘no defence in law’
2021/4 Which is the Bigger Crime Property Damage or Environmental Destruction
2021/7 First XR defendant acquitted under Supreme Court’s ‘Ziegler’ ruling
2021/12 Activists Are Using the "Climate Necessity Defense" in Court
2021/12 Jury clears Extinction Rebellion activists who targeted commuters
Activism and Social Movements TOC
I - Activism (Deep Dive)
I - Blockadia
I - CivilRightsandClimate
I - ClimateJustice
I - CollectiveAction
I - CriminalizingEnvironmentalProtest
I - EcotageFiction
I - EcotageorEcoterrorism
I - EnvironmentalGroups
I - IndigenousPeoples (Audience)
I - Klein, Naomi - Activism
I - LatinosandClimate
I - LitigationandLiability (Deep Dive)
I - MillenialsandClimate
I - NonviolentActivism
I - PublicOpinionandClimateChange (Deep Dive)
I - SolutionsasSocialActivism
I - WomenandClimate
I - YoungPeopleandClimate
I - YouthActivism
S - Civil Disobedience
S - Ecotage EcoTerrorism
S - Necessity Defense
S - Social Activism Movements and Climate Change
S - Social Movements General
N - A Social Movement Tipping Point?
N - Activism
N - Activism and Necessity Defense
N - Climate Justice
N - Ecotage Ecoterrorism
N - Social Movements
N - Youth Activism
T - Climate Activism
T - Social Change Networks
T - Social Movements
V - Activism and Movements
E - Climate Activism
E - Necessity Defense
E - Social Movement
E - The challenges of building a social movement
N - Civil Disobedience
N - Activism and Necessity Defense
N - Blockadia - NIMBY
2008 Climate Protests Escalate Worldwide
2012/6 Climate change activists scale gates of Buckingham Palace and chain themselves to railings
2012/8 Greenpeace activists retreat after occupying Russian oil rig: Oil
2013/2 Angry Young Men or Very Serious People? Whose Approach Can Better Achieve Progress on Climate Change?
2013/4 McKibben_The Fossil Fuel Resistance
2013/5 Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry
2013/7 The New Climate Radicals
2013/8 Big protest at Chevron Richmond refinery is latest example of climate activists stepping up rallies and marches
2013/10 Sini, the quiet hero
2013/10 Time for Revolt? Some Scientists Say 'Yes'
2013/11 Inaction on climate change will increase civil unrest, warn leading groups
2013/11 Man Faces One Year In Jail For Protesting JPMorgan's Fossil Fuel Investments
2013/11 The Earth is F**ked! Fighting back may be our last hope
2013/11 Thousands In Canada And Australia Protest Anti-Climate Policies
2013/12 A Glitter-Covered Banner Got These Protesters Arrested for Staging a Bioterror Hoax
2014/2 From Occupy to Climate Justice
2014/3 Nearly 400 Arrested at XL Dissent—the Largest White House Civil Disobedience Action in a Generation
2014/4 Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry
2016/2 A new wave of climate insurgents defines itself as law-enforcers
2016/2 Climate activists and pipeline protesters turn to civil disobedience in the Northeast
2016/2 Woman who tied onto anchor chain in Bellingham Bay says protest was necessary
2016/3 57 Arrested In Campaign Against Proposed Gas Storage At Seneca Lake
2016/3 Growing Dissent: The Coming Year Of Protest
2016/3 Newsletter: Using Courts To Build The Movement
2016/3 North Carolina Activists Stand Up To Duke Energy
2016/5 Disobedience - The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
2016/11 Standing Rock is the first of many protests to come in the Trump era
2016/12 From Standing Rock to Trans Mountain, dissent is in the pipeline
2016/12 Inspired by Standing Rock, West Texans Take Action to Fight Another Pipeline
2018/10 Why I’m turning from law-maker to law-breaker to try to save the planet
2019/4 California Climate Policies Serving Climate Justice
2019/4 Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse
2019/7 The radical philosophy of Extinction Rebellion
2019/8 A statement to the court by a first-time lawbreaker
2019/9 Protesters who took Macron portrait acquitted on grounds of climate crisis
2019/9 Why I broke the law for climate change
2019/9 Why the School Strike Isn't Enough
2019/10 Climate change activists block bridges, cause traffic chaos across Canada
2019/10 Court varies bail conditions for Extinction Rebellion protester
2019/10 Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
2020/4 Is civil disobedience enough or do we need a climate revolution?
2021/1 I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal.’ You Should, Too.
N - Litigation and Liability News
N - Activism and Necessity Defense
N - Adaptation Liability
N - Business Litigation and Liability Risk
N - Business Use of Litigation and Liability
N - CAA and CPP Litigation
N - Ecocide
N - Evaluating Climate Litigation Strategies
N - Facility/Project Permitting
N - Integrating Climate Science into Law and Litigation
N - International Law and Litigation
N - ISDS Investor State Dispute Settlement
N - Legal Strategies for the Climate
N - National Liability
N - NEPA CEQA
N - Nuisance, Negligence, and Strict Liability
N - Risk Disclosure Liability
N - SCC in Litigation
N - Shareholder Resolutions/Litigation
N - SLR Litigation
N - State and Local Law
N - U.S. Litigation
2019/9 The Need for Scientific Education Among Judges
2023/12 Climate Scientists Occupy the Hot Seat in Mock Trial Training
In a San Francisco courtroom, climate science gets its day on the docket
2009/12 Civil Conspiracy Lawsuits Filed Against Climate Change Deniers
2010/2 A “Legally Binding” Climate Agreement: What Does it Mean? Why Does it Matter?
2012/6 Court Rules Business as Usual
2012/10 The Math of the Military Industrial Fossil Fuel Complex
2012/12 Revolution Justified: Review
2015/4 Climate Gag Rules and the First Amendment
2015/4 The Legally Disruptive Nature of Climate Change
2015/5 Climate consciousness in daily legal practice
2015/5 Tobacco Industry Picks Up Tailwind as Smoker Suits Dealt Setback
2015/6 Climate change and self-adapting law
2015/7 Departure of E.T. (the ExtraTerritorial)
2015/7 The Urgenda decision: balanced constitutionalism in the face of climate change?
2015/11 Climate change in the courts: challenges and future directions
2015/12 Tobacco Litigation: History & Recent Developments
2016/2 “You Can’t Stay Climate Change”
2016/2 Supreme Court Stays Clean Power Plan
2016/7 EPA limits on aircraft emissions are ready for takeoff
2016/10 Alaska seal can be protected based on future climate threat, court says
2016/10 Court Ruling On Bearded Seals Is A Major Win For Climate-Threatened Species
2016/10 Small business backs new climate disaster legislation
2016/11 News of the Litigation against Climate Alarmism
2016/12 Climate Change and Directors Duties
2016/12 Two Recommendations for EPA: 1) Revise, Don't Repeal; 2) Do Your Job
2017/2 A Yawning Credibility Gap
2017/2 Climate Scientists Challenge Conservatives' NOAA Suit, Fearing More to Come Under Trump
2017/3 Environmental litigation ‘going to happen’
2017/8 Disaster Law and Hurricane Harvey
2017/8 Students, Cities and States Take the Climate Fight to Court
2018/3 Another Federal Court in California Grants Remand of Climate Change Litigation
2018/3 Everyone should take the climate change class a federal judge just held
2018/6 Originally Speaking: Climate Change and Common Law Public Nuisance - Wave 2 Response 3
2018/9 LAW: Firms offer free climate work as they defend Big Oil
2018/9 Major U.S. law firms come together to contribute $15 million in pro bono services to advance sustainability
2018/10 The possible anatomy of coming climate change trials
2018/11 A CLIMATE CHANGE CLASS ACTION AGAINST THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
2018/11 The legal perspective: Climate change’s influence on future business ventures
2018/12 Climate Change and the Law
2019/3 More Than a Thousand Legal Tools to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2019/5 'UK multinationals will face greater scrutiny after the Vedanta decision'
2019/5 Climate Case Heard Before Supreme Court
2019/5 Legal liability could catalyze action on climate change
2019/5 Microsoft joins group seeking to kill off historic climate change lawsuits
2019/6 Kenyan court blocks coal project near world heritage site
2019/7 Climate and law: Sarah Barker, Special Counsel and Head of Climate Risk Governance at MinterEllison
2019/8 Meet the Lawyers Beating Back Trump's Reckless Environmental Policies and Winning
2019/10 Attorney General’s Office Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil
2019/10 Legal Considerations for Urban Carbon Mitigation Policies
2019/11 Lawyers are unleashing a flurry of lawsuits to step up the fight against climate change
2019/12 Climate litigation is on the increase and companies need to take notice
2020/1 9 major climate change cases that could shape the fight to save the planet
2020/1 Children’s climate change lawsuit: The 9th Circuit has dismissed Juliana v. US
2020/1 Congress Mandates Pentagon Climate Action
2020/1 Court Throws Hurdle in Front of Washington State’s Drive to Reduce Carbon Emissions
2020/1 Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely with Oil Industry to Oppose Climate Lawsuits
2020/1 IEA scenarios may not stand the test of climate litigation: Dutch Supreme Court ruling (Shell should pay attention)
2020/2 Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet
2020/2 Heathrow third runway ruled illegal over climate change
2020/2 How Louisiana Lawmakers Stop Residents’ Efforts to Fight Big Oil and Gas
2020/2 Judge warns of tide of climate cases
2020/2 Torres Strait Islanders win key ask after climate complaint
2020/2 UK airports must shut to reach 2050 climate target
2020/3 Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change through Legal-Regulatory Frameworks
2020/3 Billionaire Chris Hohn threatens to sue coal-financing banks
2020/3 CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Talks to Richard Lazarus about his New Book "The Rule of Five"
2020/3 EU champions bold new climate law
2020/3 The third runway by the numbers – Shell Climate Change
2020/5 Dutch group plans class action suits against Volkswagen over ‘emissionsgate’
2020/5 Patagonia and Columbia Join Forces to Fight Trump
2020/7 Australian Government sued by 23-year-old Melbourne student over financial risks of climate change
2020/7 Business groups sue Oregon Gov. Kate Brown over carbon-reduction policy
2020/7 The law that could make climate change illegal
2020/9 Can climate change legislation keep its momentum?
2020/9 Fighting Global Warming in a Chilly Judicial Climate
2020/9 Guilty by emission: Courtrooms are the new battleground for climate activism
2020/9 The Energy 202: How Amy Coney Barrett may make it harder for environmentalists to win in court
2020/10 Climate Policymaking in the Shadow of the Supreme Court
2020/10 Republican Lawmakers Sue Gov. Kate Brown, Claiming She’s Abusing Emergency Authority
2020/11 European states ordered to respond to youth activists' climate lawsuit
2020/12 Dutch climate activists take Shell to court over emissions
2021/1 Climate litigation spikes, giving courts an ‘essential role’ in addressing climate crisis
2021/2 Court Faults France Over ‘Ecological Damage’ From Its Emissions Levels
2021/2 Court rules France failed to respect its climate change goal
2021/2 ECT lawsuits against climate measures
2021/2 German energy giant RWE uses the Energy Charter Treaty to attack Dutch climate action
2021/3 Canada Supreme Court Rules Federal Carbon Tax Is Constitutional
2021/3 Teenagers taking the Australian government to court over climate change
2021/3 The Supreme Court of Canada rules the federal carbon pricing law is constitutional
2021/4 ‘Historic’ German ruling says climate goals not tough enough
2021/4 German climate change law violates rights, court rules
2021/4 German climate law doesn't go far enough, top court rules
2021/4 New Zealand introduces climate disclosure law in world first
2021/4 Washington Legislature approves caps on carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, giving big win to Inslee, environmentalists
2021/5 ‘Black Wednesday’ for big oil as courtrooms and boardrooms turn on industry
2021/5 Australian court finds government has duty to protect young people from climate crisis
2021/5 Germany raises ambition to net zero by 2045 after landmark court ruling
2021/5 Hauge District Court Order Regarding Royal Dutch Shell
2021/5 In a single day, Big Oil suffers historic blows on climate
2021/5 Judgment day for Big Oil
2021/5 Lawyer Steven Donziger's Trial Was a Chevron-Fueled ‘Charade’
2021/5 Shell ordered to deepen carbon cuts in landmark Dutch climate case
2021/5 Shell verdict sets scene for more corporate climate cases
2021/5 Shell-shocked: a watershed moment for climate litigation against fossil fuel companies
2021/5 Shell’s Court Rebuke Marks the Start of a New War Against Big Oil
2021/5 Supreme Court Gives Big Oil a Win in Climate Fight With Cities
2021/6 How 165 Words Could Make Mass Environmental Destruction An International Crime
2021/6 Investor State Dispute Settlements as a new avenue for climate change litigation
2021/6 Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ as a new avenue for climate change litigation
2021/6 New climate science could cause wave of litigation against businesses – study
2021/6 Swiss voters reject key climate change measures
2021/6 The Man Who Beat Shell: How an Unknown Lawyer Won Historic Suit
2021/6 Top international lawyers unveil definition of ecocide
2021/7 All businesses face the growing threat of climate change litigation – Beale & Co
2021/7 Australia to appeal climate ruling that threatens fossil fuels
2021/7 Legal action against the Climate Change Commission: Necessary, influential and helpful
2021/7 What the Shell Judgment Means for US Directors
2021/8 Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Incorporated v Environment Protection Authority
2021/8 How cities can use the law to advance climate action
2021/8 The great ‘known unknowns’ with climate change in the law
2021/8 The wave of climate lawsuits against Big Oil is growing -- here’s what it means for your city
2021/8 Unpacking the case that could lead to more climate change-influenced litigation
2021/9 Fossil fuel firms sue governments for £13bn over climate action
2021/9 The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy
2021/10 Ambitious climate law plots new course
2021/10 Climate Change Litigation: The Case For Better Disclosure And Targets
2021/10 Fossil fuel companies paying top law firms millions to ‘dodge responsibility’
2021/10 Rising sea levels push Torres Strait Islanders Paul and Pabai to take legal action against the Australian government
2021/10 This climate group has published a guide on how to successfully sue Shell
2021/11 An Updated Look at Civil Liability and Litigation Risks Associated with Climate Change
2021/11 Can litigation save us from climate change?
2021/11 Climate Lawsuits Poised to Create ‘Tobacco Moment’ for Big Oil
2021/11 Climate litigation advances to key tool for enforcing emission cuts
2021/11 Days After Climate Summit, Biden To Hold ‘Carbon Bomb’ Gulf Oil Sale
2021/11 How young people are using climate litigation to fight for their future
2021/11 Law firms lack resources to meet corporate demand for ESG services, study finds
2021/11 The future of climate activism - James Thornton on using lawsuits to save the planet
2021/12 A Plea to Make Widespread Environmental Damage an International Crime Takes Center Stage at The Hague
2021/12 Climate crisis: claim at ICC to end impunity for destruction of the Amazon
2021/12 Climate litigation rising: Hot spots to watch
2021/12 Climate litigation up in 2021, with private sector now exposed
2021/12 Focus on ‘Greenwashing’ Claims in New Year of Climate Litigation
2024/4 Dutch Court to Hear Appeal in Landmark Climate Case: Milieudefensie v. Shell
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