APCEL hosts Dr Marie-Louise Holle for a Lunch Seminar on “Litigating in Tandem: Climate Litigation and the Law of Obligation”

On 18 August 2026, the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) at NUS Law hosted Dr Marie-Louise Holle for a lunch talk on her working paper, Litigating in Tandem. Dr Holle is Group Lead of the Nordic Research Lab for Climate Law and Economics at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and currently a visiting lecturer at NUS Law. The session was moderated by APCEL Senior Research Fellow Dr Linda Yanti Sulistiawati.

In her presentation, Dr Holle examined the interaction between substantive obligations and injunctive relief in corporate climate accountability litigation. Drawing on six cases from France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy, she explored how due diligence and tort-based duties interact with claims for preventive relief, highlighting questions around the duty of care, causation, imminence of harm, and the enforceability of mandatory orders. While the analysis focuses on European civil law jurisdictions, she highlighted the wider relevance of these developments, particularly through globalised supply chains and the influence of European market compliance. 

The presentation was followed by an engaging Q&A session, during which participants discussed the basis and varying relevance of identifying common themes across the cases, and the relevance of analysing cases that are still evolving. The discussion provided an opportunity to consider how approaches to corporate climate accountability and preventive relief may develop across different legal systems. The event included a lunch, providing participants with an opportunity to continue the exchange and discuss the issues raised during the talk.

Dr Marie-Louise Holle (left) and Dr Linda Yanti Sulistiawati (right) during Lunch Seminar on “Litigating in Tandem: Climate Litigation and the Law of Obligation”