Climate litigation as a jurisdictional strategy to global anthropogenic heating and climate change

Abstract

Global warming and climate change are resulting to the anthropogenic are universal guidelines that call for a series of urgent, effective actions between the government, international organizations, the scientific and business sector and society. There is no way to persevere apathy in the regulation, implementation, and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and attenuation of climate change. In this context, given the omission or moderated impetus of the main actors responsible for anthropogenic global warming, how can climate litigation contribute to the mitigation and adaptation of climate change? Having a general objective to present a panorama on the climatic litigation, two chapters were developed using as a methodological strategy the descriptive research allied to bibliographical and documentary research. In addition, it used as an example and in view of the tradition, global influence and number of processes related to this matter in the United States of America, it was reflected on the main climatic litigations of the North American jurisdiction. Climate litigation presents itself as a promising strategy to compel and impel large corporations, industries, and especially the Public Power in its legislative and executive function, to assume and take responsibility for the control and impacts of anthropogenic global warming and climate change.