through more conventional processes. Second, Our Children’s Trust seeks science-based and
legally enforceable remedies. Our Children’s Trust supports a global network of youth and
lawyers in litigating comprehensive climate change cases seeking systemic climate recovery
actions from governments. These cases rely on what leading climate scientists and the best
available science indicate is required to preserve a habitable climate system; redress
unacceptable impacts to and impairments of human rights; and protect the lives, liberties, and
equal protection of young people and future generations. The best available science indicates that
the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide must be stabilized below 350 parts per million
by 2100, equivalent to limiting the long-term temperature increase to below 1°C above preindustrial levels––a more stringent standard of protection than that contained in existing
international agreements. Third, Our Children’s Trust’s legal work is rooted in the fundamental
and inalienable human rights of citizens and future generations, including rights under the Public
Trust Doctrine, to have vital natural resources protected for their use. In executing its global
campaign, Our Children’s Trust has developed a specialized legal expertise in the duty of care
that governments around the world owe to their people and to future generations to protect and
preserve the stability of the climate system. Our Children’s Trust possesses significant legal
expertise in the inherent public trust obligation of sovereign governments and the corresponding
rights of citizens that together protect our core interest in survival and survival resources, like air,
water, oceans, shorelines, and climate. Our Children’s Trust also holds relevant expertise in the
science of climate recovery and works closely with world renowned climate scientists and
experts.
Plan B
Plan B is a charitable incorporated organization (CIO), registered in the UK, and regulated by the
UK Charity Commission. Its charitable purposes include to promote human rights (as set out in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and
declarations) in so far as they are threatened or adversely affected by the impacts of climate
change and other environmental degradation, in particular by: (i) preventing infringements of
such rights; (ii) obtaining redress for victims where such rights are infringed; (iii) promoting
respect for such rights among individuals, investors, and corporations; and (iv) providing
technical advice to governments and others on relevant matters of human rights. Plan B’s
principle objective is to support judicial and other processes, which advance accountability for
climate change (and consequently enhance the prospects of avoiding ‘looming catastrophe’).
Recognising the scientific, legal, and economic complexities that risk obscuring the attribution of
responsibility, Plan B, develops analysis and resources to assist lawyers, courts, and others.
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, located at Columbia Law School, develops legal
techniques to fight climate change, trains law students and lawyers in their use, and provides the
public with up-to-date resources on key topics in climate law and regulation. The core mission of
the Sabin Center is to develop and promulgate legal techniques to address climate change, and to
train the next generation of lawyers who will be leaders in the field. The Sabin Center is both a
partner to and resource for public interest legal institutions engaged in climate change work.
Further, the center addresses a critical need for the systematic development of legal techniques to
fight climate change outside of the realm of judicial litigation, and the compilation and
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