The Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI) is a collaborative project of Vermont Law School (VLS) and The University of Iowa (UI). Its overall purpose is to research and promote legal doctrines, principles, and rules appropriate for recognition by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and private sector institutions to safeguard present and future generations from harms resulting from global climate change. The CLI takes as given that climate change exists; affirms that lawyers have a vital role to play in both public and private discourse and action relative to it; and comprises two phases.
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