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Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa

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Editors:
Kim Bouwer
,
Uzuazo Etemire
,
Tracy-Lynn Field
, and
Ademola Oluborode Jegede

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation.

Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Publication Date:
25 Jan 2024
Online ISBN:
9781529228977
Series:
Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529228977
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Africa, Climate Justice and the Role of the Courts
PART I: Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers
2: Towards a Risk-Thematic Approach for African Climate Litigation
3: State Duty to ‘Protect’ Rights and Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation
4: Litigation Against Coal-fired Power in South Africa: Lessons from and for Global Climate Litigation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
5: Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in Cameroon
PART II: Rights-Based Approaches
6: The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change Before African Regional Human Rights Bodies
7: Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law-Based Approach
8: The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate
9: Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation Against Private Actors
10: Different Roads to the Same Destination: Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the Role of Human Rights in the Mitigation of Climate Change
PART III: Justice, Equity and Activism
11: Climate Change and Multinationals in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice
12: Law and Climate Change in North African Countries: Morocco as a Case Study
13: Climate Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria: Legal Opportunities and Gender Perspectives
14: Future Citizens: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Activism
Back Matter
Index

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

In recent years, climate litigation has become an important subject of global scholarly and policy interest. However, developments within the Global South, particularly in Africa, have been largely neglected.

This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation. Chapters engage with crucial themes such as human rights approaches to climate governance, corporate liability and the role of gender in climate litigation.

Spanning a range of approaches and jurisdictions, the book challenges universal concepts around climate and the role of activism (including litigation) in seeking to advance climate governance.

Kim Bouwer is Assistant Professor at the University of Durham, UK.

Uzuazo Etemire is Associate Professor at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Tracy-Lynn Field is Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Claude Leon Chair in Earth Justice and Stewardship.

Ademola Oluborode Jegede is Professor at the University of Venda, South Africa.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2024
Hardback ISBN:
9781529228953
ePub ISBN:
9781529228960
Online ISBN:
9781529228977
Page Extent:
358
Keywords:
climate justice; climate litigation; activism; Africa
Global Social Challenges:
Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability, Justice, Law and Human Rights
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 13: Climate Action
Subject:
Environment and Sustainability, Climate Change, Climate Change and Environmental Action, International Development, African Studies, Law, Environmental Law, Human Rights Law
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