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Dear Good Friends,
Giving Tuesday is here! And with it comes a unique opportunity for all of us to collectively make our climate system safe for all children and future generations.
Thanks to several generous members of our community, we are privileged to have our biggest year-end matching challenge ever! Through the end of this year, every contribution to Our Children’s Trust will be doubled, up to a total of $200,000, including yours!
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These are just some of the many young plaintiffs around the world that Our Children’s Trust represented and supported in 2021 – and for whom, with your generous support, we will continue to secure climate justice in 2022!
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2021 Was a Huge Year for Youth-Led, Rights-Based Climate Litigation.
In 2021, our momentum toward judicial declaration of the constitutional right to a safe climate was steady and substantial:
- We persevered against unprecedented government opposition to children’s rights to a safe climate and we continued to aggressively move our youth-led climate cases forward.
- We insisted that the incontrovertible truths and scientific realities of the climate crisis, and of our governments’ responsibility for the crisis, be heard in open court.
- We secured substantial legal victories, historic dissents, global support and visibility, and made crucial progress toward sustainable, durable climate justice.
- Though neither COP26 nor Congressional/Presidential efforts yielded any strong climate mitigation progress, 48 members of Congress and more than 165 organizations wrote letters to President Biden and Attorney General Garland in support of the Juliana 21 and their constitutional rights.
2022 Promises to Be Even Bigger.
In 2022, our constitutional climate claims will finally be heard in open court, beginning with an historic trial in Montana (the first ever U.S. climate trial on constitutional claims!) and hopefully also in the U.S. Federal and Alaska courts.
- In Held v. State of Montana, 16 young Montanans and their constitutional challenge of Montana’s fossil fuel-based energy policy will head to trial! For the first time in U.S. history, evidence of the youths’ injuries, their state’s responsibility for those injuries, and the violation of these young people’s right to a clean and healthful environment will all be heard in open court.
- We expect decisions any day from the U.S. District Court and the Alaska Supreme Court that could also send both Juliana v. U.S. and Sagoonick v. Alaska to trial in 2022 as well!
- Simultaneously, we will continue to advance our youth cases in several other states, as well as in Mexico, Canada, and other countries around the globe – plus we are launching several new state cases too!
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As the only nonprofit law firm exclusively representing children in science-based constitutional climate lawsuits, Our Children’s Trust will not rest until we secure young people’s rights to a safe climate. But we will need your help to do so.
Your tax-deductible contribution will help us provide our youth clients with the best, most thorough and strategic legal representation possible, all at no cost to them or their families, in these most existential of constitutional cases.
On behalf of all young people and future generations, including those in your family, we thank you for your consideration and for your generosity. We wish you and yours a healthy holiday season, and a new year that delivers climate justice for all.
The Team at Our Children’s Trust
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