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Climate change affects everyone, everywhere. But the way we deal with it—especially in court—is mostly local. Lawsuits over climate issues usually happen in national or regional courts, using local laws. Meanwhile, climate change is a global problem, with impacts that cross borders and generations. This creates a big challenge: how do we balance the need for global justice with the limits of local democracy?
Event details of Bringing Climate Change to Court
Date
16 June 2025
Time
17:00
Location
SPUI25

Litigation is one of the key places where people fight for justice. It’s where claims are made, argued, and decided—and those decisions shape our democratic systems. But in the climate crisis, justice and democracy don’t always align neatly. While climate justice demands a global view, democratic institutions are built to serve national interests. Three speakers take different perspectives in a round table discussion on how climate litigation may or may not contribute to bringing an international justice perspective to the domestic decision-making process on climate matters. They defend different perspectives on how the tension between democracy and justice should be reconciled. 

This workshop is organised by the Strategic Climate Litigation Project and ENLENS.

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SPUI25 is the academic-cultural podium of Amsterdam. Since 2007, we have been giving scientists, authors, artists and other thinkers the opportunity to shine a light on issues that occupy, inspire or concern them. In cooperation with a large number of academic and cultural partners, we organize between 250 and 300 freely accessible programs per year. These are enriching, often interdisciplinary programs that move between science and culture, fact and fiction.

SPUI25 is one of the UvA podia in the University Quarter.

SPUI25

Spui 25-27
1012 WX Amsterdam