Annotation

This article studies possible international and national legal mechanisms for resolving climate conflicts. Climate conflicts, which, according to the author, are a specific type of environmental conflicts, the causes of which are adverse climate change and its negative consequences. At the same time, the need to ensure a favorable state of the environment, prevent climate change and adapt to them lead to the need to develop ways to manage environmental and, in particular, climate conflicts. The development of climate conflicts can lead to their escalation into climate disputes, the resolution of which should lie exclusively in the legal plane. Indicators of the presence of a climate conflict that develops into a climate dispute and requires resolution by legal means, in particular, during consideration by international or national courts, are the presence of relevant climate lawsuits in these courts, as well as the possible appearance of climate refugees. The author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to search for legal means and mechanisms to resolve climate conflicts both at the international and national levels.