CLARIFYING TODAY'S CLIMATE CHANGE CONTEXT

摘要

As a sense of urgency about climate change grew in 2020 despite continued misinformation, skepticism, and political controversy, ELI considered it important to understand how U.S. and international courts view the basics of climate science. In a report ELI published in April-Climate Science in the Courts, A Review of U.S. and International Judicial Pronouncements-we learned that in federal and state courts, as well as in foreign courts, climate science is now an issue "beyond reasonable dispute." Even if many courts continue to defer to political representatives to determine solutions, these judicial determinations about climate science should be more influential in the public debate about climate change.