Climate change: A new type of litigation (a future trend in Portugal)

Mariana Soares David, João Bernardo Silva and Filipa Castanheira da Almeida signed the article "Climate change: A new type of litigation (a future trend in Portugal)", published in the digital platform Lexology.

«Climate change represents one of the main challenges of our times, being at the very centre of social and political life.

The relevance of this topic has led to a structural change in the social and political paradigm, influencing, in the last decades, some significant compromises, such as the Paris Agreement. 

Indeed, the issue of climate change has already entered the legal arena, which might result in a new class of litigation. 

In this regard, a legislative initiative in the European Union is currently underway to introduce a duty to perform human rights and environmental due diligence for companies based on or carrying out business activities in the EU in relation to their value chains.»

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