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  • Dietz, Simon, Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine, Chan, Tiffanie, Walker-Crawford, Noah, Venmans, Frank (2026). Translating climate science into legal standards: lessons from the Milieudefensie v. Shell case. Science, 391(6780), 26-29. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz4857 picture_as_pdf
  • Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette, Hall, Nina, Vanhala, Lisa, Setzer, Joana, Higham, Ian, van Asselt, Harro (2025). Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash. Nature Climate Change, 15(11), 1133 – 1135. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02475-y picture_as_pdf
  • Savaresi, Annalisa, Setzer, Joana, Bookman, Sam, Bouwer, Kim, Chan, Tiffanie, Keuschnigg, Isabela, Armeni, Chiara, Harrington, Alexandra, Heri, Corina & Higham, Ian et al (2024). Conceptualizing just transition litigation. Nature Sustainability, 7(11), 1379 - 1384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01439-y picture_as_pdf
  • Sato, Misato, Gostlow, Glen, Higham, Catherine, Setzer, Joana, Venmans, Frank (2024). Impacts of climate litigation on firm value. Nature Sustainability, 7(11), 1461 - 1468. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01455-y picture_as_pdf
  • Aristova, Ekaterina, Higham, Catherine, Higham, Ian, Setzer, Joana (2024). Corporate climate change responsibilities under the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 73(2), 505 - 525. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589324000125 picture_as_pdf
  • Eskander, Shaikh, Higham, Catherine, Hamley, Maggie, Setzer, Joana, Fankhauser, Samuel (2024). Testing the ambition loop: do country- and company-level net-zero targets reinforce each other? A global comparison. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 26(3-4), 266 - 282. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2024.2317949 picture_as_pdf
  • Fermeglia, Matteo, Higham, Catherine, Silverman-Roati, Korey, Setzer, Joana (2024). Mapping climate-related investment arbitrations. Transnational Dispute Management, 21(1). picture_as_pdf
  • Merner, Delta, Benjamin, Lisa, Ercole, William, Keuschnigg, Isa, Kunik, Julian, Martínez Toral, Karla, Peterson, Laura, Setzer, Joana, Sokol, Karen & Tandon, Aradhna et al (2024). Comparative analysis of legal mechanisms to net-zero: lessons from Germany, the United States, Brazil, and China. Carbon Management, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2023.2288592 picture_as_pdf
  • Tigre, Maria Antonia, Setzer, Joana (2023). Human rights and climate change for climate litigation in Brazil and beyond: an analysis of the climate fund decision. Georgetown Journal of International Law, picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Rossi, Lívia Trabulsi, Gueorguiev, Maria Christina M. (2023). Plan B Earth and others vs Secretary Of State for Transport. REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS, 16(2), 1173 - 1199. https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2023.71938 picture_as_pdf
  • Kotzé, Louis J., Mayer, Benoit, van Asselt, Harro, Setzer, Joana, Biermann, Frank, Celis, Nicolas, Adelman, Sam, Lewis, Bridget, Kennedy, Amanda & Arling, Helen et al (2023). Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13291 picture_as_pdf
  • Ghaleigh, Navraj Singh, Setzer, Joana, Welikala, Asanga (2022). The complexities of comparative climate constitutionalism. Journal of Environmental Law, 34(3), 517 - 528. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqac008 picture_as_pdf
  • Savaresi, Annalisa, Setzer, Joana (2022). Rights-based litigation in the climate emergency: mapping the landscape and new knowledge frontiers. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 13(1), 7 - 34. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2022.01.01 picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Carvalho, Delton (2021). Climate litigation to protect the Brazilian Amazon: establishing a constitutional right to a stable climate. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 30(2), 197 - 206. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12409 picture_as_pdf
  • Eskander, Shaikh, Fankhauser, Sam, Setzer, Joana (2021). Global lessons from climate change legislation and litigation. Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2, 44 - 82. https://doi.org/10.1086/711306 picture_as_pdf
  • Yoshida, Keina, Setzer, Joana (2020). The trends and challenges of climate change litigation and human rights. European Human Rights Law Review, 2020(2), 140 - 152. picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Sainz De Murieta, Elisa, Galarraga, Ibon, Rei, Fernando, Mendes Lomba Pinho, Mariângela (2020). Transnationalization of climate adaptation by regional governments and the RegionsAdapt initiative. Global Sustainability, 3, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.6 picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Benjamin, Lisa (2020). Climate litigation in the Global South: constraints and innovations. Transnational Environmental Law, 9(1), 77 - 101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102519000268 picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Benjamin, Lisa (2020). Climate change litigation in the Global South: filling in Gaps. AJIL Unbound, 114, 56-60. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2020.6 picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Vanhala, Lisa (2019). Climate change litigation: a review of research on courts and litigants in climate government. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.580 picture_as_pdf
  • Hsu, Angel, Höhne, Niklas, Kuramochi, Takeshi, Roelfsema, Mark, Weinfurter, Amy, Xie, Yihao, Lütkehermöller, Katharina, Chan, Sander, Corfee-Morlot, Jan & Drost, Philip et al (2019). A research roadmap for quantifying non-state and subnational climate mitigation action. Nature Climate Change, 9(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0338-z picture_as_pdf
  • Ganguly, Geetanjali, Setzer, Joana, Heyvaert, Veerle (2018). If at first you don't succeed: suing corporations for climate change. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqy029 picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana (2017). How subnational governments are rescaling environmental governance: the case of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 19(5), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2014.984669
  • Anderton, Karen, Setzer, Joana (2017). Subnational climate entrepreneurship: innovative climate action in California and São Paulo. Regional Environmental Change, 18(5), 1273-1284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1160-2
  • Valente de Macedo, Laura, Setzer, Joana, Rei, Fernando (2016). Transnational action fostering climate protection in the city of São Paulo and beyond. DISP, 52(2), 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2016.1195582
  • Setzer, Joana (2015). Testing the boundaries of subnational diplomacy: the international climate action of local and regional governments. Transnational Environmental Law, 4(02), 319-337. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102515000126
  • Rei, Fernando, Setzer, Joana, Cunha, Kamyla (2013). La paradiplomacia ambiental en la nueva Gobernanza internacional = Environmental paradiplomacy: the Brazilian participation in the international climate regime. Brazilian Journal of Environmental Law, 71, 265-286.
  • Setzer, Joana, Biderman, Rachel (2013). Increasing participation in climate policy implementation: a case for engaging SMEs from the transport sector in the city of São Paulo. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31(5), 806-821. https://doi.org/10.1068/c11262
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  • Fermeglia, Matteo, Setzer, Joana (2025). Investment disputes: supporting and undermining climate action. In Romera, Beatriz Martinez, Nordlander, Linnéa, Monti, Alessandro, Rytter, Jens Elo (Eds.), Human Rights and Investment Law for Climate Change (pp. 87 - 106). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310098.00013
  • Nosek, Grace, Setzer, Joana, Franta, Benjamin, Johl, Alyssa, Benjamin, Lisa, Yadin, Sharon, Buzbee, William W., Kovalovich, Aria (2025). Legal and state efforts to address climate obstruction. In Roberts, J. Timmons, Milani, Carlos R. S., Jacquet, Jennifer, Downie, Christian (Eds.), Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment (pp. 332-363). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197787144.003.0012
  • Setzer, Joana, Walker Crawford, Noah (2024). Overview of climate change litigation against corporations. In Aristova, Ekaterina, Lim, Justin (Eds.), Climate Litigation in Europe Unleashed: Catalysing Action against States and Corporations (pp. 19 - 22). Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (University of Oxford).
  • Setzer, Joana, Anderton, Karen (2019). Subnational leaders and diplomacy. In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.504 description
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  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (2025). Global trends in climate change litigation: 2025 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/LSE.LH46LE9Y8SGI picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (2025). 세계 기후소송 동향2024 스냅샷(국문): 2024 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (2024). Global trends in climate change litigation 2024: summary brief. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (2024). Global trends in climate change litigation: 2024 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.rm4jm5692gaw picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (2023). Global trends in climate change litigation: 2023 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.9t1vm73ug29o picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (2022). Global trends in climate change litigation: 2022 snapshot. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.7yssjddl60ct picture_as_pdf
  • Nachmany, Michal, Fankhauser, Sam, Setzer, Joana, Averchenkova, Alina (2017). Global trends in climate change legislation and litigation: 2017 update. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Nachmany, Michal, Fankhauser, Sam, Davidová, Jana, Kingsmill, Nick, Landesman, Tucker, Roppongi, Hitomi, Schleifer, Philip, Setzer, Joana, Sharman, Amelia & Singleton, C. Stolle et al (2015). The 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study: a review of climate change legislation in 99 countries: summary for policy-makers. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, GLOBE International.
  • Nachmany, Michal, Fankhauser, Samuel, Townshend, Terry, Collins, Murray, Landesman, Tucker, Matthews, Adam, Pavese, Carolina, Rietig, Katharina, Schleifer, Philip, Setzer, Joana (2014). The GLOBE climate legislation study: a review of climate change legislation in 66 countries: fourth edition. GLOBE International and Grantham Research Institute, LSE.
    • Thesis
  • Setzer, Joana (2013). Environmental paradiplomacy: the engagement of the Brazilian state of São Paulo in international environmental relations [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Working paper
  • Sato, Misato, Gostlow, Glen, Higham, Catherine, Setzer, Joana, Venmans, Frank (2023). Impacts of climate litigation on firm value. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Papers 397). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Sato, Misato, Gostlow, Glen, Higham, Catherine, Setzer, Joana, Venmans, Frank (2023). Impacts of climate litigation on firm value. (CCCEP Working Paper 412). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. picture_as_pdf
    • Blog post
  • Chan, Tiffanie, Setzer, Joana (15 October 2025) Climate litigation is surging amid faltering politics and diplomacy. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Echeverri, Juliana, Higham, Catherine, Setzer, Joana (17 April 2024) Climate-washing” litigation deters misinformation, but can it help cut emissions? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Berliner, Daniel, Higham, Ian, Setzer, Joana (11 December 2023) How to ensure governments stay on track to meet the 1.5°C target. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Higham, Catherine (4 October 2021) Climate change litigation is growing and targeting companies in different sectors. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Setzer, Joana, Borges, Caio, Leal, Guilherme (25 November 2020) Public prosecutors, political parties, and NGOs are paving the way for vital climate change litigation in Brazil. LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog. picture_as_pdf