We know that Americans love lawsuits. And it turns out that the national passion for litigation extends to climate-related cases.
U.S. litigants are responsible for nearly 70 percent of the climate-related suits filed globally since 1986, according to a new report jointly written by the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. That's 1,590 out of the 2,341 cases from at least 51 countries, nearly two-thirds of which have come since 2015, when the Paris Climate Accords were struck. The findings come as high profile climate-related cases have garnered recent public attention in the U.S.
The next highest is Australia, where 130 cases have been identified, followed by the U.K. at 102.
