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Nature Geoscience: ‘Climate change before the court’ – ‘Litigation could have an important role to play’

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Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2612
Published online 07 December 2015

In the absence of an enforceable set of commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, concerned citizens may want to supplement international agreements on climate change. We suggest that litigation could have an important role to play.

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Climate change before the court

Nature Geoscience
doi:10.1038/ngeo2612
Published online

In the absence of an enforceable set of commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, concerned citizens may want to supplement international agreements on climate change. We suggest that litigation could have an important role to play.

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  1. Client Earth, Fieldworks, 274 Richmond Road, Martello Street Entrance, London E8 3QW, UK

    • James Thornton &
    • Howard Covington

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