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High Court of Lahore, Ashgar Leghari v. Federation of Pakistan, order of 14 September 2015
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Plan B Earth v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWCA Civ 214
The UK Court of Appeal cancelled the government’s decision to develop a third runway in Heathrow Airport on the ground that the strategic environmental assessment had not taken the adoption and ratification of the Paris Agreement into account. The main argument accepted by the Court was that the Planning Act 2008 s.5(8) requires a national …
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Juliana v. US (CA, 17 January 2020), on admissibility, dismissed for lack of standing
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/01/17/18-36082.pdf
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Montana youths bring lawsuit over state energy policy
https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-youths-bring-lawsuit-over-state-energy-policy/article_7308239b-daf9-56bd-af82-597e9668b005.html
Hillary Aidun, “Juliana in the World: Comparing the Ninth Circuit’s Decision to Foreign Rights-Based Climate Litigation”
http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2020/03/13/juliana-in-the-world-comparing-the-ninth-circuits-decision-to-foreign-rights-based-climate-litigation/
“Indian states must provide clean air and water or pay damages, supreme court rules”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/indian-states-must-provide-clean-air-and-water-or-pay-damages-supreme-court-rules?CMP=share_btn_tw