A recent High Court ruling in Tanzania takes on a question that often sits in the background of mining law: who actually controls the benefits that are meant for communities living next to extraction sites? The case came from villages around the North Mara Gold Mine. For years, those communities received the full share of corporate social responsibility funding linked to the mine. The money went into visible things. Roads, water systems, schools, clinics. It was tied to plans

This page provides the latest climate litigation news, tracking key court decisions, new filings, and procedural developments from climate change lawsuits around the world. Updates are added on a rolling basis through the Climate Court Litigation Tracker , which monitors significant climate-related cases across national and international courts, including climate lawsuits, climate-related environmental litigation, biodiversity litigation, greenwashing cases, and corporate cl

This page provides the latest climate litigation news, tracking key court decisions, new filings, and procedural developments from climate change lawsuits around the world. Updates are added on a rolling basis through the Climate Court Litigation Tracker , which monitors significant climate-related cases across national and international courts, including climate lawsuits, climate-related environmental litigation, biodiversity litigation, greenwashing cases, and corporate cl

A newly filed lawsuit in the United States raises an new and increasingly important question for climate and financial law: what happens when climate-related financial risk enters the world of retirement plan fiduciary duties? The case, Kvek v. Cushman & Wakefield U.S., Inc. , does not accuse a company of emitting greenhouse gases or misleading investors about climate policy. Instead, it targets the way a major employer managed the investment options in its employee retiremen

For the past several months, our founder, Loes, has been part of the All Will Rise team as a climate law professional. Here's what she has to say about it: When I first joined the project, I had absolutely no background in gaming. I was very much the newcomer in the room. In fact, during some of the early discussions, I had to ask basic questions about things that were obvious to others, including what exactly an “NPC” was. Over time, though, that initial unfamiliarity turne