11 May 2026
Climate Change in the High Court of Australia
In May, the High Court of Australia (HCA) will hear MACH Energy Australia v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group & Anor (“Denman”), the first climate case to reach Australia’s apex court. The case adds to a growing body of climate jurisprudence in which courts consider whether and how climate impacts must be integrated into environmental impact assessments. However, the Denman case raises a further question: whether the GHG emissions associated with a coal mine can be understood as being likely to cause climate and environmental impacts in a particular “locality”. Continue reading >>
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09 February 2026
The Bonaire Climate Case
Once again, all eyes were on The Hague. After groundbreaking rulings in the Urgenda and Shell cases, the District Court in The Hague on 28 January delivered another important climate change decision in the case of Greenpeace Netherlands v. The Netherlands (Bonaire). The court, acknowledging the contested political context in which the ruling was made, sought to square the circle of state mitigation obligations by balancing potentially far-reaching considerations about the mitigation efforts required from states like the Netherlands with an innovative procedural and dialogue-oriented remedy. Continue reading >>
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