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Transnational Insights For Climate Litigation At The European Court Of Human Rights: A South-North Perspective In Pursuit Of Climate Justice, Melanie Murcott, Maria Antonia Tigre, Nesa Zimmermann Jul 2023

Transnational Insights For Climate Litigation At The European Court Of Human Rights: A South-North Perspective In Pursuit Of Climate Justice, Melanie Murcott, Maria Antonia Tigre, Nesa Zimmermann

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

The global climate crisis is increasingly recognised as an issue of climate injustice, including because it is causing (and worsening) inequalities and human rights violations. Moreover, responsibility for emissions and vulnerability to climate impacts are not evenly distributed. They vary among and within states. In order to tackle these issues of justice both within and among states, litigants have taken to domestic and regional courts to engage in climate litigation. A body of transnational climate jurisprudence is emerging in which courts are increasingly looking to laws beyond their relevant state or region, engaging with the moral aims of human rights …


Ccsi Submission To The Special Rapporteur On Human Rights And The Environment: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (Isds) Mechanisms And The Right To A Clean, Healthy, And Sustainable Environment, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment Jun 2023

Ccsi Submission To The Special Rapporteur On Human Rights And The Environment: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (Isds) Mechanisms And The Right To A Clean, Healthy, And Sustainable Environment, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

CCSI Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms and the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, submitted in June 2023.