Carbon majors litigation: what prospects for litigation against investors?

Adebayo Majekolagbe and Sara L. Seck

Chapter 7 in Human Rights and Investment Law for Climate Change, 2025, pp 107-132 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While many climate change claims lodged before courts to date have primarily targeted states, there is increasing evidence of litigation targeting private actors for their contributions to climate change. This chapter will first introduce and describe ‘carbon majors’, then consider the groundbreaking work of the Philippines Human Rights Commission's Carbon Majors Inquiry in clarifying the potential of human rights-based corporate accountability litigation for climate harms. The chapter will then propose a framework for classifying human rights-based climate litigation against carbon majors investors, and those that finance them, before turning to examine specific examples that illustrate the proposed classification. This analysis lays the basis for the chapter's assessment of the extent to which current legal frameworks are open to climate change litigation against investors that engage in carbon-intensive investments.

Keywords: Climate change litigation; Carbon majors; Human rights-based climate litigation; Carbon-intensive investment; Climate change law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035310081
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