Causation in National and International Climate Change Litigation

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of causation in climate change litigation across a range of regional, national and international legal jurisdictions. By doing so, it offers clarity and potential solutions for legal professionals, scholars and courts navigating the complex legal terrain of climate change litigation.
Constructing causal chains in climate litigation poses significant difficulties for the judicial system. Factual challenges range from causal overdetermination to the vast spatial and temporal scale of climate-related cause-and-effect relationships. Normative obstacles are posed inter alia by the multitude of greenhouse-gas emitters and the wide range of climate-influencing practices. 
Drawing on diverse understandings of causation from various legal perspectives, as well as from other disciplines such as computer science, metaphysics and philosophy, this book provides a fundamental understanding of climatic causation in law. Further, it lays the groundwork and clarifies the requirements for the use and development of continuous causal chains in climate change litigation.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Setting the Stage for Climate Change Litigation.- Chapter 2. Causation in Climate Change Litigation.- Chapter 3. Factual Causation.- Chapter 4. Normative Causation.- Chapter 5. Conclusions.

About the author

Meike Krakau holds a PhD from LMU Munich. Her research interests include climate, environmental and energy law. 

Product details

• Authors: Meike Krakau
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9783031746925
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3174692-5
• No. of pages: 429
• Illustrations: XVIII, 429 p. 2 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Rechtswissenschaft, allgemein, Attribution Science, Internationales Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Internationales Öffentliches Recht: Umwelt, Fundamentals of Law, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, International Environmental Law, Climate Justice, climate change litigation, Anthropogenic Climate Change, Normative Causation, Market Share Causation Doctrine, Contribution to Climate Change, Causality in Law, Probabilistic Causation, Counterfactual Causation, Foreseeability of Climate Change, Cause-Effect Relations, Materiality of Climate Change, Causation in Law, Factual Causation