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29 November 2025, Berlin

People’s Court for Climate Trials: A Public Hearing

Berlin
29 November 2025, 12:00 pm
HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer
Stresemannstraße 29, 10963 Berlin

How do we effectively demand justice and accountability for the climate crisis? In this extended Public Hearing, environmental plaintiffs from around the world – from Switzerland and Peru to the Pacific Islands – will come together. They have taken protest from the streets into the courtroom, suing governments and corporations whose actions exacerbate the climate crisis and violate fundamental rights or international obligations.

The Public Hearing plays with the procedures and rituals of a courtroom to create a space between a political and a performative assembly, wherein plaintiffs and their representatives, experts, and lawyers come together. The focus is on international lawsuits through which the plaintiffs demand a drastic reduction of emissions by legal means. On the one hand, governments are targeted to be compelled to further adopting their yet inefficient climate policies. Several landmark rulings for the protection of human rights and future generations have already been achieved. On the other hand, energy and resource corporations are also being held accountable for floods, extreme weather events, or rising sea levels. Overall, the presented cases demonstrate how legal strategies, transnational solidarity, and civil society engagement work hand in hand to demand new forms of planetary justice. Planetary justice is oriented towards respectful relationships within and between communities and societies, towards a balance between species and ecosystems, and focuses on the local level.

With Clara Gonzales, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, Oda Müller, Luisa Neubauer, Yi Yi Prue, Erena Rangimarie RereOmaki Rhose, Parid Ridwanuddin, Caroline Schroeder, Abdul Mufeez Shaheed, Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti, Karin Zennig
Chairs: Miriam Saage-Maaß, Svenja Beller, Yolanda Rother
Expert: Lea Frerichs

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