Participants in the environmental litigation training workshop in Cape Town, December 2024. Photo credit: Natural Justice. More than 50 lawyers from 10 southern African countries convened in Cape Town from December 5-8 for an environmental and climate litigation training, covering topics ranging from climate change to critical minerals to carbon markets. The Vance Center co-organized the workshop with African legal empowerment organization Natural Justice and the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights. The workshop was designed to provide generalists and human rights litigators with the tools to take on environmental cases across the continent. It is a pilot project... read more


