Climate change has evolved from being a controversial issue to a widely recognized global threat over time. The inclusion of climate action as one of the 17 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, 1 the conclusion of the 2015 Paris Agreement, 2 and the publication in 2018 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C 3 have forged an agreement among the international community on the causes and risks of climate change. At the national level, a surge of laws codifying national and international responses to climate change has given rise to a growing number of lawsuits around the world on climate change-related matters. 4 The topic of climate litigation has attracted the attention of scholars from across social sciences fields, including most prominently the legal discipline and political science. 5 Legal scholarship on climate litigation covers a broad scope
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