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Record Nr.

UNINA9910986138203321

Autore

Krakau Meike

Titolo

Causation in National and International Climate Change Litigation / / by Meike Krakau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9783031746932

9783031746925

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (499 pages)

Disciplina

347.09

Soggetti

Mediation

Dispute resolution (Law)

Arbitration (Administrative law)

Environmental law, International

Law of the sea

International law

Aeronautics - Law and legislation

Law

Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration

International Environmental Law

Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space

Fundamentals of Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.