Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa

1. Africa, Climate Justice and the Role of the Courts - Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode Jegede





Part 1: Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers


2. Towards a Risk-Thematic Approach for African Climate Litigation - Tracy-Lynn Field


3. State Duty to 'Protect' Rights and Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation - Ademola Oluborode Jegede


4. Litigation against Coal-fired Power in South Africa: Lessons from and for global Climate Litigation to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions - Nicole Loser


5. Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in Cameroon - Daniel Armel Owona Mbarga





Part 2: Rights-Based Approaches


6. The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change Before the African Regional Human Rights Bodies - Elsabe Boshoff


7. Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law-Based Approach - Judge John Mativo


8. The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate - Fiona Batt


9. Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation against Private Actors - Pia Rebelo


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 - Sanita van Wyk





Part 3: Justice, Equity and Activism


11. Climate Change and Multinationals in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice - Eghosa O. Ekhator


12. Law and Climate Change in North African Countries: Morocco as a Case Study - Riyad Fakhri and Youness Lazrak Hassouni


13. Climate Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria: Legal Opportunities and Gender Perspectives - Pedi Obani


14. Future citizens: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Activism - Bright Nkrumah