Category: Community

When: Friday 22 April, 5:00-6:30 pm (Santiago & Washington DC time) Where: On Microsoft Team – click on this link. Overview: In 2021, the Escazú Agreement entered into force. The Agreement brings several legal questions with innovative provisions that must now be translated at the national and local levels. To facilitate the implementation of the Escazú…

By Jacques Hartmann As Savaresi and Setzer recently reported on this blog, rights-based climate litigation in Europe is burgeoning. At the domestic level, there have been setbacks, but also notable successes, following the ground-breaking victories in cases like Urgenda and Neubauer – as Maxwell, Mead and van Berkel explain, also on this blog. At the…

by Lucy Maxwell, Sarah Mead and Dennis van Berkel Climate litigation occurs against a backdrop of climate crisis and government inaction. As this GNHRE blog post series explains, communities are increasingly turning to the courts as a last resort to compel high-emitting countries to ramp up their mitigation ambition. Following the landmark Urgenda case in the Netherlands, these…

By Annalisa Savaresi and Joana Setzer In 2018 Jacqueline Peel and Hari Osofsky identified a ‘rights turn’ in climate litigation. The use of human rights law and remedies to address concerns related to climate change has since intensified and become more complex. A new special issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment…

Litigation concerning climate change mitigation and adaptation increasingly invokes human rights. The databases curated by the Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment  show a rising tide of rights-based climate change cases all over the world, ‘pushing the boundaries’ of human rights law…