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45 Pub. Land & Resources L. Rev. 77 (2022)
Youth and Indigenous Voices in Climate Justice: Leveraging Best Practices from U.S. and Canadian Litigation

handle is hein.journals/publan45 and id is 83 raw text is: YOUTH AND INDIGENOUS VOICES IN CLIMATE JUSTICE: LEVERAGING BEST PRACTICES FROM U.S. AND CANADIAN LITIGATION Randall S. Abate* I. INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................78 II. EVOLUTION OF YOUTH AND INDIGENOUS CLIMATE JUSTICE L ITIG A TION .......................................................................................... 81 A. The United States ..........................................................................82 B. Canada .........................................................................................85 III. RECENT AND PENDING CASES IN THE U.S. AND CANADA.................86 A. Juliana and Post-Juliana Cases in State Courts ...........................87 1. Oregon....................................................................................89 2. Alaska .....................................................................................90 3. Montana..................................................................................91 B. The New Wave of Canadian Climate Justice Litigation...............93 IV. PATHWAYS TO ADVANCE YOUTH AND INDIGENOUS CLIMATE JUSTICE LITIGATION ..............................................................................100 A. Justiciability................................................................................101 1. Type and Scope of Remedy ...................................................101 2. Coupling Claims with Rights-Based Foundations ...............104 B. Intersectionality of Youth and Indigenous Claims .....................108 V . C ON CLU SIO N .....................................................................................111 * Randall S. Abate, J.D., is the inaugural Rechnitz Family and Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy. He also is the Director for the Institute for Global Understanding and a professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Monmouth University. The author gratefully acknowledges exceptional research assistance from Kimia Towfigh, J.D. and B.C.L. (2021), McGill University Faculty of Law. The author also thanks Professor Geoff Garver, who provided valuable input on a work-in-progress draft of this article that the author presented at the 12th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Law Scholarship at Vermont Law School on September 25, 2021.