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This article draws on the notion of co-production to assess the construction oftransnational narratives in climate change litigation. Using the examples ofrecent cases from the Netherlands, Norway, and Ireland, the article identifies acommon narrative regarding the temporal dimension of climate change and itsgovernance. Litigants are shown to develop a notion of urgency for nationalclimate policies with the help of symbols and discourses—including pathways,crossroads, milestones, thresholds and carbon budgets—in order to attributemeaning to complex models of the future climate, and the immediateresponsibilities of states to limit future global warming. In response, states offerdepictions of the future in which technological and economic evolutionsrender our current climate crisis less challenging and costly. This narrativeapproach helps make sense of the transnational legal strategies through whichour understanding of responsibility and climate justice is unfolding. |