Climate Litigation Risk & Legal Exposure

This course explains how climate litigation works: the three structural categories of climate claims (mitigation, adaptation, and governance), the specific corporate behaviors that attract legal scrutiny, and the financial ripple effects that extend well beyond courtroom costs. It also addresses topics that are still underappreciated in many organizations, including the collapse of boilerplate force majeure protection, the insurance coverage gaps that climate cases expose, novel legal avenues including environmental justice and biodiversity claims, and the strategic risks of retaliatory litigation tactics.