Reparations and Climate Change
Justice in the Context of the Climate Crisis
What is the Reparations and Climate Change Project?
The Climate Change and Human Rights: Responsibility and Reparations project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through the Partnership Engage program, is led by Professor Miriam Cohen, in collaboration with Professors Vladyslav Lanovoy (Université Laval) and Armando Rocha (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), as well as Maria Antonia Tigre, Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center (Columbia Law School). This project is conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
Justice and Climate Change
This research project analyzes decisions and advisory opinions issued by regional and international courts on climate change, shedding light on key issues related to state responsibility and reparations for climate-related damages.
The research team convened experts, scholars, and practitioners from diverse disciplines in a workshop in April 2025, aiming to share knowledge and build interdisciplinary networks on climate change and reparative justice.
Our
publications
Book chapters
Miriam Cohen, “Participation in Climate Change Advisory Proceedings: Bridging the Gap between the Judiciary and the International Community”, The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis, Maria Antônia Tigre and Armando Rocha (dir.) Brill, 2025, pp. 199-219.
Maria Antonia Tigre and Armando Rocha, “The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis: An Introduction”, The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff, 2024, 1-38.
Armando Rocha and Maria Antonia Tigre, “Finding the ‘Rosetta Stone’? Concluding Remarks on the Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis”, The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff, 2024, pp. 326-336.
Articles
Maria Antonia Tigre, Camille Martini, Miriam Cohen, Armando Rocha, "A Panoply of Consequences?: Remedies and Reparations in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion", VerfBlog, 2025/8/12.
Armando Rocha, Maria Antonia Tigre, Miriam Cohen, "Addressing Accountability in the IACtHR’s Advisory Opinion: The Question of Reparation and Loss and Damage" , VerfBlog, 2025/7/21.
Vladyslav Lanovoy, Miriam Cohen, "Climate Change Before International Courts and Tribunals: Reflections on the Role of Public Interest in Advisory Proceedings", Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 2025, pp. 97-127.
Nouwagnon Olivier Afogo, Maria Antonia Tigre, Armando Rocha, Miriam Cohen, “Defining Climate Justice in the African Human Rights System: On the Climate Advisory Opinion Request to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights”, VerfBlog, 2025/7/02.
Miriam Cohen, Vladyslav Lanovoy, Camille Martini, Armando Rocha, Maria Antônia Tigre, Éneas Xavier, “Reparation for Climate Change at the ECtHR: A Missed Opportunity or the First of Many Decisions to Come?”, VerfBlog, 2024/5/10.
Miriam Cohen, “Climate Change Proceedings as a Watershed Moment: Public Interest in the Jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea”, 2024, Chinese (Taiwan) Journal of International Law and Policy, 177-201 pp
Conferences/Workshop
Miriam Cohen, “Parallel Claims for Reparation in Respect of Harm Caused by Climate Change,” Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law Conference, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, and Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy, University of Durham, 29 August 2025.
Miriam Cohen, "Conferencia SLADI 2025", América Latina en un mundo en vertiginosa transformación, 31 July 2025.
Miriam Cohen and Camille Martini, “Parallel Claims for Reparation in Respect of Harm Caused by Climate Change,” 2025 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, Taipei, (7 July 2025).
Miriam Cohen, Nouwagnon Olivier Afogo, "L’urgence climatique et la gouvernance mondiale : opportunité d’affirmation ou facteur d’effacement des BRICS ? », L’irruption des BRICS sur la scène internationale : analyse critique et pluridisciplinaire de la nouvelle gouvernance mondiale, Colloque international sur les BRICS, Université de Montréal, 29-30 May 2025.
Vladyslav Lanovoy, “Changement climatique et réparations”, Rendez-vous de l’Action Climatique, Université Laval, Quebec City (20 May 2025).
Miriam Cohen, Vladyslav Lanovoy, Camille Martini, Armando Rocha, Maria Antônia Tigre, Éneas Xavier, "Climate Change and Reparations", Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, 10-11 April 2025.
Miriam Cohen and Enéas Xavier de Oliveira, “Parallel Claims for Reparations in Respect of Harm Caused by Climate Change, Lisbon 2024 Climate Conference, 24 October 2024.
Our team was awarded the Hsu Mo Prize in Taipei at the International Law Association–American Society of International Law Asia-Pacific Research Forum 2025, which took place on 7–8 July in the presence of former Taiwanese President Ying-jeou Ma.
From April 10 to 11, 2025, the international conference “Climate Change and Reparations” took place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal.
The conference brought together more than twenty experts from various institutions around the world and more than 350 participants in the classroom and online.
The videos of the conference
Our Team
The Researchers and Fellows Involved in the Project.
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