Climate Litigation Brought by Youth 

Litigation is an important act of climate advocacy with mixed results in Canada and elsewhere. 

Youth legal action over Ontario government’s climate targets

A group of young Canadians is challenging Ontario’s roll back of relatively progressive climate targets. 

https://environmentjournal.ca/nextgen-perspectives-youth-legal-action-over-ontario-governments-climate-inaction/

A successful litigation by American youth

A group of 16 American youth won a climate case against the state of Montana,

https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2023/08/about-our-human-rights-us-youths-win-landmark-climate-case