Climate Justice

Eklavya Vasudev is a legal scholar at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, researching climate litigation and co-coordinating an international PhD programme on Business and Human Rights. A 2024 President's Prize recipient, he has practiced before the Indian Supreme Court and held positions at the Lawyers Collective, American Bar Association, and the O'Neill Institute in Washington DC. Marie-Sophie Keller is a socio-legal scholar at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, NGO consultant and activist. Her area of research interests lies in gender, climate justice, and supply chains. She previously worked in German Parliament and took part in the political and legal process around the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. Her involvement in the fight against Unilever's devastating mercury pollution and the systematic undermining of workers' rights with deadly consequences in the Indian town of Kodaikanal was the beginning of her ongoing commitment to business and human rights. Siddharth Peter de Souza is an Assistant Professor at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. His work explores how data is governed globally in contested, and plural settings and he has authored Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World which discusses how rule of law indicators needs to be reimagined in contexts and countries in the Global Majority. Siddharth is the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture which seeks to build legal literacy and awareness in India, and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Data Justice Project, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society.

• Foreword by Kanchi Kohli; 1. Climate Justice: Resisting Marginalisation Siddharth Peter DeSouza, Marie-Sophie Keller and Eklavya Vasudev; I. Climate Change and Marginality: 2. Climate Change and the Pain of Others Giovanna M. Frisso and Juliana Santos De Carvalho; 3. Climate Justice, Place and Time: A Genealogy of the Left Bank Outfall Drain Affected Palvasha Shahab; 4. Queering Climate Justice Zsea Bowmani; 5. No Climate Justice without Gender Justice: Examining Policy and Practice of Climate and Gender Justice from an Intersectional Lens Ngcimezile Mbano-Mweso; II. Climate Solutions and Marginality: 6. Blockchain for Climate Change, and the Rise of Blockchain Colonialism Tatheer Fatima; 7. The Datafication of Climate Change Governance: Three Stories about Scale, Power, and Knowledge Laura Mai; 8. Digital Agriculture: In Need of a Business and Human Rights Law Solution Foto Pappa; III. Climate Litigation as Resistance: 9. Litigation and Climate Justice: A Perspective from Brazil Helena Dolabela and Fabiana Leme; 10. Courts, Environment and Climate Change: The Indian Experience Talha Abdul Rahman and Abu Bakar Junaid; 11. Leading Climate Cases Against Corporate Actors: Understanding Climate Accountability Julia Stefanello Pires; IV. Legal Action as Resistance Beyond the Courts: 12. Climate and Data Justice in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement Ulrike Will; 13. Environmental Interventions in International Investment Disputes Emily Sipiorski.