Legal Interventions examines three categories of legal intervention that can enable cities to drive climate action: litigation, legal reform initiatives and pioneering policies or legislation by city governments. Cities can use these legal interventions to remove barriers to climate actions, clarify and obtain powers, and influence national government policy or corporate activities, enabling them to undertake more ambitious climate action and to tackle emission sources beyond their remit.
This report, developed with the guidance of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, outlines how cities are already taking advantage of these different types of legal interventions and details a host of cases led by cities, non-governmental organisations and other actors.
