Modern Social Science Research

Climate change is one of the most severe challenges facing the world today. Extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and ecosystem destruction caused by climate change pose significant threats to the global economy, society, environment, and human health. With the acceleration of global industrialization and the intensive exploitation of natural resources by human activities, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, leading to changes in the Earth's climate system. Climate change has become an undeniable reality. Currently, China's approach to addressing climate change is still in the exploratory stage. Focusing on this global challenge, this paper delves into the judicial pathways for addressing climate change in China. By analyzing the practical experiences of foreign climate change litigation, it highlights the shortcomings in China's current system, including the lack of foundational rights for climate change litigation, ambiguous definitions of climate-related cases, obstacles to judicial activism, and insufficient preventive justice. Corresponding improvement measures are proposed to address these issues.

Climate change litigation; Enforcement litigation; Dual-carbon goals; Judicial activism; Risk prevention