Aktuelle Folge
10 Years of Climate Litigation 10 Years of Climate Litigation
In this first episode of Between Heat and Hope, Simon Waswa, PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam is joined by Dennis van Berkel, Legal Counsel of the Urgenda Foundation and Strategic Advisor at the Climate Litiga
Länge: 48:47
10 Years of Climate Litigation
In this first episode of Between Heat and Hope, Simon Waswa, PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam is joined by Dennis van Berkel, Legal Counsel of the Urgenda Foundation and Strategic Advisor at the Climate Litigation Network (CLN). The conversation begins by taking stock of CLN’s 10-year anniversary since the landmark Urgenda decision. This decision marked the first time a court ordered the State to do its part in the fight against climate change. The discussion then delves into the legal architecture that has been cumulatively built from the bottom up through the different climate cases from Urgenda to KlimaSeniorinnen to the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion (ICJ AO) on climate change.
The conversation closes with reflections on the future of climate litigation and the democratic legitimacy of courts as they continue to hold States and corporate actors to account amid political backlash and an accelerating climate crisis.
References
CLN “Ten Years Climate Litigation” report
Urgenda
KlimaSeniorinnen
ICJ AO on climate change
Andre et al. (2025) – 89% study (see also here)
Editing: Clara Kammeringer
Recorded at the University of Amsterdam, January 2026
The LitDem Project
GUID: 411135da-77ff-4a2f-8d3e-0d291dbfa8b4
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.1.2026, 16:58:37
