This volume offers a glimpse into the diverse and pressing issues of climate law subject to ongoing research at ClimLaw: Graz. In June 2020, the research center for climate law ClimLaw: Graz was officially opened at the University of Graz, Austria. As part of the festive opening, distinguished members of the Scientific Board of ClimLaw: Graz and PhD students specialising in climate law gave presentations on current opportunities and challenges in climate law. This volume assembles the essays and provides a testimony of the official launch of ClimLaw: Graz. Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time and calls for legal, interdisciplinary and coordinated responses. This volume offers a glimpse into the diverse and pressing issues of climate law subject to ongoing research at ClimLaw: Graz. Current developments in climate law are critically observed and analysed from the national, EU and global perspective in steady dialogue with other disciplines. In doing so, ClimLaw: Graz is envisaged to become a nationally and internationally connected research, teaching and networking platform. For interested readers, this book offers insight into selected aspects of the current legal debate on climate change and climate protection. Avoiding Climate Catastrophe: Mission Impossible or Realistic Ambition? – The Challenges and Potential Crowbars to Stem the Tide (Jaap Spier); Climate Law and Climate Science: Joint Enabler of a New Climate Enlightenment? (Oliver C. Ruppel); Against the Taming of the Spinners – On the National Goal of Climate Protection – Lecture at the Opening Symposium ‘Clim Law Graz – Research Center for Climate Law’ (Ferdinand Kerschner); It Is Not the Winning But the Taking Part That Counts – The Symbolic and Indirect Effects of Strategic Climate Litigation (Carlotta Garofalo); ‘Legitimate Expectations’, State Subsidies and Climate Change Mitigation (Miriam Hofer); WTO Rules on Border Carbon Adjustment for the EU ETS: Key GATT Principles (Lydia A. Omuko-Jung); Balancing Decisions in Climate Law – How Economic Instruments Could Help to Increase Their Acceptance (Christoph Romirer); Resettlements as Spatial Adaptation Measures to Tackle Climate Change Impacts? (Markus Scharler); The European Green Deal – What Is in a Name? (Isabel Staudinger); The Ecuadorian Chevron Judgment – Blueprint for a Neoconstitutional Environmental Law? (Andreas Gutmann); List of editors and authors