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Strategic climate change litigation can take a number of different legal forms, involve a range of public and private actors and pursue various objectives. While it is generally framed as a tool to achieve policy or social change, it can also be thought of as a tool to help address and remedy the injustices associated with climate change. Climate injustices are many and complex. Many of the core substantive issues involve highly contested questions of responsibility—for example, issues of distributive justice (eg who should take responsibility for reducing emissions and financing adaptation considering wealth and capacity?), compensatory justice (eg how should historical contributions to climate change impacts be taken into account and who should compensate victims?) and intergenerational justice (eg to what extent should future generations bear the brunt and cost of managing climate change impacts caused by the actions and decisions of past and present generations?). Strategic climate change litigation can help to establish, recognise or clarify legal responsibilities for certain public and private actors to act