Climate Fight Now in Courts Across the World.

• Author: Feldman, Sarah

Byline: Sarah Feldman_: One thousand and twenty-three lawsuits dealing with climate change were filed in the U.S. court system between May 2018 and May 2019, according to the Grantham Institute. There were about 205 times less climate change cases in Germany, which saw only five climate cases over that same time frame. Out of all the global climate change litigation in the works, three-quarters of that legal legwork came from the U.S.

One thousand and twenty-three lawsuits dealing with climate change were filed in the U.S. court system between May 2018 and May 2019, according to the Grantham Institute. There were about 205 times less climate change cases in Germany, which saw only five climate cases over that same time frame. Out of all the global climate change litigation in the works, three-quarters of that legal legwork came from the U.S.

The Grantham Institute reviewed 873 climate suits in the U.S. between 1990 and 2016. Even though the U.S. makes up a bulk of climate change litigation worldwide, over those two and a half...