The brilliant Annalisa Savaresi, Linnéa Nordlander, and Margaretha Wewerinke have written about the recent ECtHR decisions for GNHRE - "Climate Change Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights: A New Dawn." Read here: gnhre.org/?p=17984

🔜📺⚖️🌱many enviro rights/#climatelitigation webinars this week: unpacking EuroCourt of #HumanRights' climate judgements, the upcoming Advisory Opinion of InterAmCourt of HR, intersectional #ClimateAction… For all registration links (& to add more), see: bit.ly/GreenRightsWeb…

Das KlimaSeniorinnen-Urteil des ECHR CEDH schreibt Rechtsgeschichte. Mancherorts in der Schweiz sorgt es für Kritik und Empörung. Unsere Replik aus der Wissenschaft in Republik #klimarecht #menschenrechte republik.ch/2024/04/22/ein…

All three installments of Pranav Ganesan's analysis of the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment are now online on our blog!

If you're interested in what the ECHR CEDH KlimaSeniorinnen judgment contains, why it must be seen as a success, and what nations must do to comply, head over to nature for my brief viewpoint #humanrights #climatechange #ECHR, mostly for #nonlawyers nature.com/articles/d4158…

Pflichtlektüre zum KlimaSeniorinnen-Urteil

⚡️🚨⚖️ Starting in 10mins: historic moment on the path to #ClimateJustice: the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea 🧑‍⚖️🌊 will deliver the first international legal opinion spelling out States' legal obligations in the context of climate change #ITLOSAO 🧵A live thread ⬇️

Here we go....

Big news from Hamburg today, where the ITLOS established that States have stringent due diligence obligations re climate-related impacts on marine environments -- for a useful thread from Melissa Stewart, see below; for the advisory opinion, click here: itlos.org/fileadmin/itlo…

“Der EGMR existiert nicht, um Parlamenten und Regierungen zu gefallen.” #thisisanintervention

How does climate science shape the work of courts? In the most recent post to our blog, hazhar jamali discusses "The Value of IPCC Reports in Shaping Climate Change Jurisprudence". Full post available here: climaterightsdatabase.com/2024/06/11/the…

How do international courts clarify the relationship between the international climate regime (especially the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement) and their own constitutent instruments? Pranav Ganesan compared the ITLOS and ECtHR approaches for our blog: climaterightsdatabase.com/2024/06/11/ect…

Last Thursday, in R (Finch) v. Surrey County Council, the UK Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment mandating inclusion of downstream emissions in EIAs. Today, Hazhar Jamali's comment on the case went live our blog. Check it out here: climaterightsdatabase.com/2024/06/25/uk-…

Our summary of the new German "Zukunftsklage" - a constitutional climate case announced yesterday and following up on the landmark Neubauer ruling by drawing on the recent KlimaSeniorinnen judgment of the ECHR CEDH - is now live. climaterightsdatabase.com/2024/06/27/zuk…

Heute im ⁦⁦tagesanzeiger⁩ : Streitgespräch mit unserer eigenen Helen Keller und SP-Ständerat Daniel Jositsch. Sie debattieren den Klima-Entscheid aus Strassburg. Sie findet ihn «bahnbrechend», er «falsch». Aber vor einer Gefahr warnen beide. tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaseniorinn…

Die gegenwärtigen Starkniederschläge in der Schweiz sind mit dem Klimawandel verbunden. Die Klimawissenschaften zeigen, dass "Starkniederschläge mit dem wärmeren Klima viel heftiger ausfallen und häufiger auftreten". Prof Sonia I. Seneviratne erklärt es im Interview: srf.ch/news/schweiz/e…

Two exciting recent rulings just added to our climate litigation database: four landmark South Korean cstl. mitigation cases (decided yesterday), and a German district court case recognizing rights of nature under EU law (!). See climaterightsdatabase.com/2024/08/30/min… & climaterightsdatabase.com/2024/08/30/ger….