Margaret Barry

3 posts

Climate Change in the Courtroom: UNEP and Sabin Center’s Global Climate Litigation Report 2025

  Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School have released the Global Climate Litigation Report 2025: Status Review. This fourth edition of our joint survey builds on earlier reports published in 2017, 2020, and 2023, continuing our collaborative […]

Computer screen with image of the new Climate Litigation Database website

Relaunching the Climate Litigation Database: Tracking the Law in a New Era

When lawsuits first began to raise climate change issues in the late 1980s, the cases were rare and experimental, with litigants testing out ways to draw on the growing body of climate science to argue for legal obligations to address “the serious and imminent threat to our environment posed by […]

100 Days of Trump 2.0: Laying the Groundwork for Future Climate Litigation Battles

This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0, in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over […]