GLOBAL LEGAL ACTIONS

Our Children’s Trust represents, supports, and inspires youth and attorneys around the world who develop and advance legal actions to compel science-based government action on climate change in their own countries. The staff at Our Children's Trust support these locally-led partner efforts by providing legal, outreach, and communications assistance and expertise.

The success of our partners include: Norway’s successful adoption of a public trust-based constitutional climate amendment, which is now pending in the Norwegian Supreme Court; Urgenda’s big court win in the Netherlands mandating specific national emission reductions; and the Supreme Court of Pakistan allowing young Rabab Ali’s constitutional climate case to proceed on behalf of the public and future generations. 

Our Children’s Trust also assisted with the youth plaintiffs’ victory in Colombia, where their Supreme Court affirmed their constitutional rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water; recognized legal personhood for the Colombian Amazon forest as well as a duty of the Colombian government to protect it; and ordered the Colombia government to create and implement plans to halt deforestation, update and orient existing land management plans towards climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop an “intergenerational pact for the life of the Colombian Amazon” with the plaintiffs, affected communities, and scientific organizations.

Currently, our team supports active litigation in five countries, including federal climate cases that span North America, from La Rose v. His Majesty the King in Canada to Jóvenes v. Gobierno de México in Mexico.

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