Funded by the Worldwide Universities Network, Dr. Tafadzwa Mushonga from the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria joined a team of researchers from the Universities of Leeds, Southampton, and Cape Town in leading discussions on the soft launch of an important and timely volume on the "Climate Change Litigation and Vulnerabilities: Global South Perspectives. The soft launch was held at the University of Southampton Law School on the 3rd of October 2024 in partnership with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNRE). A snippet of the volume:

Introduction: Global South Perspectives on Litigation and Vulnerability Amidst
Intersectional Climate Injustice
Maria Antonia Tigre, Melanie Murcott, Susan Ann Samuel

Part 1 - Exposing the Limits of Litigation as a Mechanism for Intersectional
Climate Justice

1. Facing Coloniality within Legal Systems: Indigenous Peoples in Latin
American Climate Litigation
Elisa Fiorini Beckhauser and Valeriana Augusta Broetto

2. Reframing Climate Change Litigation in the Global South: A Study of Wind
Energy Projects and Extractivism in India
Ayan Garg and Nitai Vishal Hinduja

3. Addressing Health Crises through Courts? Understanding Inequality in
Latin America’s Climate Litigation

Thalia Viveros Uehara

4. The Inclusion of Women and Girls in Climate Adaptation Policy in India:
Opportunities and Challenges for Future Litigation
Moushita Dutta and Katherine Lofts

Part 2 - Innovative Litigation in Pursuit of Intersectional Climate Justice

5. Elevating Women’s Voices in Transnational Climate Litigation: The Case of
Asmania et al. vs Holcim
Nina Burri and Laura Duarte Reyes

6. Forum Shopping in Climate Litigation? Three Cases Involving the Torres
Strait Islands
James Barrett

7. The Need for Child-Led Climate Litigation in Bangladesh: Lessons from
India and Pakistan
Preetkiran Kaur, Sathiabama S. and Vedavalli S.

8. A Human Rights Approach to Environmental Protection (HRAEP) as a Tool
for Fostering Climate-Resilience for the Nigerian Woman
Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan and Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe

9. A Litigation Strategy for Vulnerable Communities Pursuing Climate
Litigation: The Indian Iteration of the Precautionary Principle and the
Reversal of the Burden of Proof
Kanika Jamwal

You can preorder your copy at Routledge using our discount code: EFLY03

The book launch was followed by a closed workshop on advancing Climate Litigation in the Global South (GSCL) Project on the 4th of October 2024. This workshop aimed to deliberate on the achievements and challenges of the GSCL project,  model a successful impact project for the GSCL project, as well as identify potential collaborators for, and funders of future directions of the GSCL project. We also discussed ways to effectively disseminate knowledge gained to date in the GSCL project. 

Congratulations to Professor Melanie Murcott and Maria Antonia Tigre. Professor Melanie Murcott is a long-time collaborator of the Environmental Humanities Project at CAS.