This database records litigation (including settled cases and court orders) on issues of climate change in Australia. It encompasses cases across several different substantive categories including mitigation cases, adaptation cases, cases on corporate climate risk accountability, constitutional and human rights cases, and cases that broaden access to justice in climate cases.

Australia presently has the second largest number of climate cases globally and the most significant adaptation jurisprudence of any country. For details of litigation elsewhere in the world you can find this information on the climate change case charts maintained by the Sabin Center for Climate Law at Columbia University and the LSE Grantham Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World database.

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SELECT LITIGATION TYPE:

• Access to Justice
  • Costs
  • Other
  • Transparency/disclosure
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• Constitutional and Human Rights
  • Constitutional rights
  • Human rights
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• Corporate Accountability
  • Consumer protection
  • Renewable energy
  • Shareholder actions
  • Transparency/disclosure
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• Project Approval - Adaptation
  • Bushfire risk
  • Coastal hazard
  • Flood risk
  • Land valuation
  • Local government liability
  • Sea level rise
  • Water scarcity
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• Project Approval - Mitigation
  • Coal mine
  • Coal seam gas
  • Coal-fired power station
  • Costs
  • Energy efficiency
  • Other
  • Wind farm
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SELECT JURISDICTION:

• Federal
  • Federal Court of Australia
  • High Court of Australia
  • Refugee Review Tribunal of Australia
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• New South Wales
  • Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • New South Wales Land and Environment Court
  • Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal
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• Queensland
  • Queensland Land and Resources Tribunal
  • Queensland Land Court
  • Queensland Planning and Environment Court
  • Supreme Court of Queensland - Court of Appeal
  • Queensland Body Corporate and Community Management Commissioner - Adjudicators Orders
  • Supreme Court of Queensland
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• South Australia
  • South Australian Environment, Resources and Development Court
• Victoria
  • Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
• Western Australia
  • Supreme Court of West Australia
  • State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia
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