This paper discusses the history and the future prospects of private climate litigation, which seeks to hold private entities legally accountable for climate change-related damage or threats of damage. It argues that, following failed attempts to clear judicial thresholds with regard to standing, proof of harm and causation, a new wave of private climate change lawsuits can be identified, and it is by no means doomed to failure. This is because climate change litigation takes place in a rapidly evolving scientific, discursive and constitutional context, which generates new opportunities for judges to rethink the interpretation of existing legal and evidentiary requirements and apply them in a way that will enhance the accountability of major private carbon producers. Moreover, even unsuccessful cases can contribute to articulating climate change as a legal and financial risk, which may help to guide climate change responsive adjudication in the longer term.

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如果一开始你没有成功：起诉气候变化公司

本文讨论了私人气候诉讼的历史和未来前景，旨在追究私人实体对气候变化相关损害或损害威胁的法律责任。它认为，在试图清除关于诉讼资格、损害证明和因果关系的司法门槛失败后，可以确定新一波的私人气候变化诉讼浪潮，而且决不会注定失败。这是因为气候变化诉讼发生在快速发展的科学、话语和宪法背景下，这为法官重新思考对现有法律和证据要求的解释和应用它们提供了新的机会，以加强主要私人碳排放的问责制生产者。而且，