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This article examines the growing phenomenon of climate change litigation in the USA and Canada. It explores the expanding context in which this litigation is occurring and highlights key successes and failures of these actions. In the absence of a comprehensive federal framework in both countries, the article shows how litigation is being used by claimants to attempt to require government action in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to force private entities to do the same and to pay damages. Whether a piecemeal approach to climate change engendered through litigation can provide a solution to this global issue remains to be seen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on climate change litigation and comprehensive international framework involving the United States. It is argued that the United States is the environmental litigation capital of the world, that environmental groups and other stakeholders around the world utilized its climate change litigation strategies. Climate change litigation is viewed as a necessary means to encourage, compel governments and companies to avert the environmental consequences. The United States environmental litigation risk were supported by judiciary and legislative resolutions.