Climpact LIT
A case is not the end.
Tell us what followed.
The Litigation Impact Tracker collects the traces a climate case leaves behind, whether it has been decided or only filed: a law rewritten, a project withdrawn, a court that follows it, a debate that shifts. Anyone can report one. A trace is something reported, not something proven — and every one of them carries its source, so you can judge it.
- 85
- traces recorded
- 45
- cases with a trail
- 19
- countries touched
Five ways to look at it
The same trail, five figures
One set of reported traces, seen five ways. Click any point to open its record, or open a view full screen.
Open data
Take the data, and the charts
Everything published here is open data under CC BY 4.0. No key, no registration, no rate limit: three addresses that answer JSON, and a CSV for the spreadsheet.
The traces
GET /api/lit/v1/traces
Filter with ?case=, ?kind=, ?country=, ?from=, ?to=, ?limit=. Add ?format=csv for the spreadsheet.
One trace
GET /api/lit/v1/traces/{slug}The whole dossier: sources, documents, notes, connected records.
The cases
GET /api/lit/v1/cases
Every case the tracker knows, with how many traces it has and of what kind.
The charts
<iframe src="/embed/lit/network">
Any of the five views, live, on your own page. The Embed button above writes the line for you, filters included.
Cite it as: CLIMPACT — Litigation Impact Tracker (LIT), Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, www.climpact.it/lit. Every record carries the level we have checked it to, and every response repeats it: a trace is something reported, with its source, not something proven.
No promises we do not keep
How it works
You report
A form with five fields, for a decided case or one still in court. The only thing we insist on is the link: an impact without a source is a rumour.
We read it
A researcher opens the source and checks that it says what the report says. That is the normal level, and entries published this way are labelled Reported.
It becomes a public trace
Published traces are open data: they appear in the five views, they carry your name if you asked for it, they get their own page that anyone can add to, and they will enter the Climpact dataset releases.
We say Reported and not Verified on purpose. Full verification against our methodology is a separate, slower process, and an entry only carries the Verified label once it has been through it. Telling you which is which is part of the work.