Tessa Khan

Tessa Khan is co-director of the Climate Litigation Network, a project of the Urgenda Foundation, and received an award from the Climate Breakthrough Project in 2018 for her efforts using the law as a tool to dramatically increase national climate mitigation ambition. She has more than a decade of experience working as a human rights lawyer and advocate on behalf of communities and individuals in the global south and north, helping to build movements for social and economic equality, justice and peace.

Thinking strategically about climate litigation

By: Ben Batros & Tessa Khan
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Climate litigators can learn from human rights actors on how and when to use litigation strategically to create systemic change.