Sabin Center Climate Litigation Newsletter: MARCH 2025

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Sabin Center Climate Litigation Newsletter
March 11, 2025
Welcome to the first edition of the Sabin Center Climate Litigation Newsletter! This newsletter is a successor to our longstanding monthly newsletter. The new newsletter will be sent twice a month and will be dedicated to covering the Sabin Center's climate litigation work, including the latest updates to the climate litigation databases, litigation-focused blog posts and other publications, and highlights from the Peer Review Network of Global Climate Litigation. Everyone who subscribed to the monthly newsletter is automatically subscribed to the litigation newsletter. We also will continue to send the monthly newsletter covering all of the Sabin Center's activities. If this newsletter has been forwarded to you, you can subscribe here.
 
US Case Highlight: Magistrate Said Puerto Rico Municipalities’ RICO and Antitrust Climate Claims Should Proceed Against Fossil Fuel Companies
A federal magistrate judge in the District of Puerto Rico recommended that the district court deny fossil fuel companies’ motions to dismiss Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and antitrust claims brought by Puerto Rico municipalities, but recommended dismissal of claims brought under Puerto Rico law. The magistrate found that the municipalities adequately pleaded a basis for personal jurisdiction, and rejected arguments that the statute of limitations barred the municipalities' claims or that the municipalities failed to allege the elements of their federal claims.
 Global Case Highlight: Greenpeace and Shell Settle Lawsuit Over North Sea Protest

Greenpeace and Shell have reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed after activists occupied Shell’s Penguins oil platform in early 2023 to protest fossil fuel expansion. Initially seeking $2.1 million in damages and a global protest ban, Shell later reduced its claim to $1 million. Facing over $11 million in potential costs, Greenpeace International and Greenpeace UK settled in December 2024 without admitting liability or paying Shell; instead, they will donate £300,000 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As part of the agreement, Greenpeace activists will refrain from approaching four Shell sites in the northern North Sea for up to 10 years.
 
Summaries of All New Cases and Decisions
Climate Change Litigation Databases
 

Research & Publications

  • Beyond Protest: How Legal Actions Drive Climate Justice, by Lea Main-Klingst, Hermann E. Ott, Maria Antonia Tigre. Access the chapter here. 
Blog Posts
 
 Data Insights from Climate Litigation Databases
 
 

Network Highlights:

 Spotlight on Expert: Featuring Antoine de Spiegeleir, Rapporteur for Belgium
Read his Interview here. 
De Spiegeleir, Antoine. 2024. “Climate Change Storytelling and Masterplots at the European Court of Human Rights.” Law and Humanities, December, 1–29.
 
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