🔍🔎 Climate science in the courtroom ⚖️
Fawcett 9.04, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, WC2A 2AZ
Thursday 2nd July 2026
Legal Voices for the Future presents our July 2026 Knowledge Session on 🔍🔎 Climate science in the courtroom ⚖️ , hosted in partnership with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and led by LVF Stewardship Committee member Emily Bradeen.
Since the first climate litigation cases were brought in the 1980s, the field has evolved at pace. Cases are now being filed against an increasingly diverse range of public and private actors, with courts relying on scientific evidence to adjudicate questions of responsibility for climate change and its impacts.
Join us on 2nd July 2026 (Thursday) at 6.30pm to explore how rapidly evolving climate science is being used in climate litigation.
Presentation
In this LVF Knowledge Session, we will be joined by experts from the LSE and Imperial Grantham Research Institutes, Emily Theokritoff (Research Associate in Climate Damage Attribution at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London), Jameela Joy Reyes (Policy Officer at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment), and Nicholas Petkov (Research Assistant at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment), who will present their findings from a new Grantham report series on scientific evidence and corporate accountability in climate litigation.
Our speakers will first provide an overview of the role of scientific evidence in climate litigation, focusing in particular on attribution science and its growing use in “polluter pays” litigation. In ‘polluter pays’ litigation, claimants must establish a causal relationship between a defendant’s greenhouse gas emissions and a specific incidence of past or future harm. The speakers will then explain how evidence is used to establish linkages between greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related harms, while exploring key legal concepts such as causation and standards of proof.
Creative content: Debating the science
After the presentation, participants will break out into groups to discuss how climate science can be used in legal cases.
🤺 We will then debate a series of questions, provided by our speakers during the breakout session. No advanced preparation is required!
👇Join us online👇
To be as inclusive as possible, we run our events in a hybrid format. If you are not in London for our knowledge session, please do join us online!
Join us via Zoom here: https://lse.zoom.us/j/82525199629
About the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading multidisciplinary centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise from across LSE and beyond, including on economics, finance, geography, the environment, science, law, international relations, development and political science.
About Legal Voices for the Future
Legal Voices for the Future is a collaborative knowledge-sharing forum established by young practitioners from different fields of law, whose objective is to give voice to a new generation of lawyers. We do so by holding monthly knowledge sessions open to everyone - lawyers and non-lawyers alike.
In order to bring fresh perspective, innovation and determination to pressing global issues such as climate change, each session is organised and led by a different member of Legal Voices for the Future.
Learn more about us on our website
https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk
...and our Law Society page
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/climate-change/legal-voices-for-the-future
Follow us on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/legal-voices-for-the-future/?viewAsMember=true
Would you like to support our work?
We accept small donations via our fundraising page that we use to rent venues and provide catering for our events: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/legalvoices
Funds go towards our current operational costs, including subscriptions and website maintenance costs. Any donation is greatly appreciated!
Event page photo credit: needpix.com
Your Data
By signing up for a ticket to this event, you consent to us collecting and processing your personal data for the purposes in our Privacy Notice (accessible at https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk/privacy-policy/).
Attendees' names will be shared with the LSE Grantham Research Institute for the purposes of admission to the event.
LVF may be taking photographs of this event for use on our website, social media accounts, and/or promotional materials. If you have any objection to being photographed please let us know before the event begins.
Photo credit: Yucong Cai via Unsplash
Since the first climate litigation cases were brought in the 1980s, the field has evolved at pace. Cases are now being filed against an increasingly diverse range of public and private actors, with courts relying on scientific evidence to adjudicate questions of responsibility for climate change and its impacts.
Join us on 2nd July 2026 (Thursday) at 6.30pm to explore how rapidly evolving climate science is being used in climate litigation.
Presentation
In this LVF Knowledge Session, we will be joined by experts from the LSE and Imperial Grantham Research Institutes, Emily Theokritoff (Research Associate in Climate Damage Attribution at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London), Jameela Joy Reyes (Policy Officer at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment), and Nicholas Petkov (Research Assistant at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment), who will present their findings from a new Grantham report series on scientific evidence and corporate accountability in climate litigation.
Our speakers will first provide an overview of the role of scientific evidence in climate litigation, focusing in particular on attribution science and its growing use in “polluter pays” litigation. In ‘polluter pays’ litigation, claimants must establish a causal relationship between a defendant’s greenhouse gas emissions and a specific incidence of past or future harm. The speakers will then explain how evidence is used to establish linkages between greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related harms, while exploring key legal concepts such as causation and standards of proof.
Creative content: Debating the science
After the presentation, participants will break out into groups to discuss how climate science can be used in legal cases.
🤺 We will then debate a series of questions, provided by our speakers during the breakout session. No advanced preparation is required!
👇Join us online👇
To be as inclusive as possible, we run our events in a hybrid format. If you are not in London for our knowledge session, please do join us online!
Join us via Zoom here: https://lse.zoom.us/j/82525199629
About the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading multidisciplinary centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise from across LSE and beyond, including on economics, finance, geography, the environment, science, law, international relations, development and political science.
About Legal Voices for the Future
Legal Voices for the Future is a collaborative knowledge-sharing forum established by young practitioners from different fields of law, whose objective is to give voice to a new generation of lawyers. We do so by holding monthly knowledge sessions open to everyone - lawyers and non-lawyers alike.
In order to bring fresh perspective, innovation and determination to pressing global issues such as climate change, each session is organised and led by a different member of Legal Voices for the Future.
Learn more about us on our website
https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk
...and our Law Society page
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/climate-change/legal-voices-for-the-future
Follow us on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/legal-voices-for-the-future/?viewAsMember=true
Would you like to support our work?
We accept small donations via our fundraising page that we use to rent venues and provide catering for our events: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/legalvoices
Funds go towards our current operational costs, including subscriptions and website maintenance costs. Any donation is greatly appreciated!
Event page photo credit: needpix.com
Your Data
By signing up for a ticket to this event, you consent to us collecting and processing your personal data for the purposes in our Privacy Notice (accessible at https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk/privacy-policy/).
Attendees' names will be shared with the LSE Grantham Research Institute for the purposes of admission to the event.
LVF may be taking photographs of this event for use on our website, social media accounts, and/or promotional materials. If you have any objection to being photographed please let us know before the event begins.
Photo credit: Yucong Cai via Unsplash
