Climate Litigation News Updates | December 8-12, 2025

The latest climate litigation news and case developments are added on a rolling basis to the Climate Court litigation tracker, giving you continuous access to the most important climate lawsuits, environmental protection disputes, biodiversity cases, and climate-related litigation worldwide. Our global database brings together expert case summaries, primary court documents, judicial decisions, and live updates from national and international courts.

Whether you follow corporate climate accountability claims, challenges to government climate policy, or climate-related human rights litigation, Climate Court helps you stay ahead of the legal developments shaping climate and environmental law.

Below you’ll find this week’s latest climate litigation updates, organised by day to make it easy to track the most recent filings, rulings, and procedural milestones. This page is refreshed daily as new climate cases emerge across jurisdictions. For earlier coverage, you can explore prior weeks on our Resources page.

Here’s a snapshot of the newest updates added this week:

December 8

Africa:

• African Court Orders Kenya to Remedy Ogiek Land Rights Violations and Protect Mau Forest Ancestral Environment: Indigenous land rights, forest conservation, East Africa climate justice, biodiversity protection.

Germany:

• German Environmental Aid Sues Rothaus Brewery for Misleading “Climate Positive 2030” Greenwashing Claim: EU greenwashing regulation, corporate sustainability claims, consumer-protection law, climate-neutrality marketing scrutiny.

December 9

South Africa:

• Shareholders Sue Thungela in High Court Over Repeated Refusal to Table Climate Resolutions: South Africa corporate governance, ESG shareholder rights, coal sector climate risk disclosure.

  
  

United States:

• Federal Court Vacates Trump Administration’s Nationwide Ban on Wind Energy Permitting: offshore wind development, renewable-energy permitting, clean-energy investment, executive overreach.

  
  

• Federal Court Orders Trump Administration to Release Secret Climate Working Group Records: FACA transparency, climate-science suppression, EPA Endangerment Finding, government accountability.

December 10

France:

• NGOs File Legal Action Accusing France of Illegally Excluding Overseas Territories from European Social Charter Protections: human rights discrimination, access to water, colonial-era legal gaps, social rights enforcement.

Germany:

• German Environmental Aid Sues Berlin for Failing to Update Legally Required Climate Protection Program: subnational climate obligations, emissions-reduction targets, German climate litigation.

  
  

Luxembourg:

• Opportunity Green Files OECD Complaint Accusing ArcelorMittal of Failing to Curb Its Climate Impact: steel sector emissions, corporate due diligence, OECD Guidelines climate accountability.

Papua New Guinea:

• NGOs File First-Ever Equator Principles Complaint Over Papua LNG, Targeting MUFG and Project Financiers: project finance standards, Indigenous rights, biodiversity risks, LNG expansion.

United Kingdom:

• High Court Upholds Luton Airport Expansion, Rejects Climate and Environmental Challenge: aviation emissions, environmental impact assessment, UK planning law.

United States:

• Sixth Circuit Strikes Down EPA’s Ozone “Attainment” Decision, Restoring Stricter Clean-Air Rules for Detroit: Clean Air Act enforcement, ozone pollution, environmental justice, asthma impacts.

  
  

December 11

Climate litigation updates will be added here soon.

December 12

Climate litigation updates will be added here soon.

All of this week’s climate litigation updates are available in full in the Climate Court litigation tracker, where subscribers can access in-depth summaries, original court filings, and real-time tracking of climate and environmental lawsuits from around the world.

Monitoring climate litigation is increasingly vital for businesses, legal professionals, NGOs, investors, and policymakers, as court decisions now directly influence corporate sustainability strategies, regulatory compliance, and climate risk management. Staying informed allows companies to anticipate legal exposure, enables lawyers and consultants to guide clients effectively, and helps the wider public follow how climate litigation is driving accountability and environmental justice worldwide.