While many experts don’t expect the report to lead to any new laws or measures, it is seen as a relatively groundbreaking sign of support for something many in the environmental law community have been working on: to make prosecutors more aware of the potential use of existing environmental laws, and to figure out how to give climate change science legal standing in courts.Though the acts themselves might be legal—like bottom trawling, which destroys the carbon capture potential of the seabed, the use of harmful fuels in the shipping industry, and many business-related green-collar crimes—they can be prosecuted using existing laws as an aggravating factor to public harm.That evidence would need to be intelligible, Brubacher explained, requiring education about climate change science in law schools and for prosecutors, as well as a new workforce of experts who specialize in both areas.“You need to develop briefings for prosecutors and judges, you need tools to show how a particular crime can be assessed for its contribution to climate change that can then be understood by people who aren’t knowledgeable in climate science,” Brubacher said.“I’m not sure this report is trying to push forward any big change that we can see and measure,” said Thomas Sparks, senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law."