Cases mentioned

• Tengger desert case brought by CBCGDF in 2017.
• All-China Environment Federation (ACEF) vs. Zhenhua in 2015.
• Friends of Nature vs. Ningxia Grid in 2018.

For more country specific context and relevant national climate change law see: https://climate-laws.org/geographies/china

This country report has been produced by Manon Rouby, C2LI Research Assistant, Humzah Khan, C2LI Senior Research Assistant and Lydia Omuko-Jung, C2LI Legal Analyst with the collaboration of Tianbao QIN and Meng ZHANG, C2LI National Rapporteurs. This summary is based on Tianbao QIN and Meng ZHANG, “Climate Change and the Individual: A Perspective of China” in F. Sindico and M. Moise Mbengue, Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Springer, 2021.