Essays about: "climate change litigation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words climate change litigation.

  1. 1. "Greening the European Convention on Human Rights   A Study on the Intersection of Climate Change and Human Rights in the European Court of Human Rights"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Evelina Olsson; [2024-02-16]
    Keywords : Climate change; European Court of Human Rights; European Convention on Human Rights; Human Rights; Greenhouse gas emissions; Climate litigation;

    Abstract : The surge in human rights-based climate litigation in recent years underscores the intricate relationship between the environment and human rights. In the European context, despite the pioneering role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), it has never ruled on a case primarily related to climate change and greenhouse emissions. READ MORE

  3. 2. Private Climate Litigation: A Viable Tool for Climate Justice?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : August Carlsson; [2023]
    Keywords : private law; private climate litigation; climate justice; environmental justice; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This essay concerns private climate litigation as a tool through which victims of loss and damage can access climate justice. Anthropogenic climate change is already today causing substantial harm to people and communities all over the world. READ MORE

  4. 3. Climate Litigation, Human Rights & Intergenerational Justice

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julian Robert Herrmann; [2023]
    Keywords : Intergenerational Justice; Human Rights; Climate Litigation; Climate Change;

    Abstract : The progression of climate change has brought the issue of intergenerational justice further into focus. At the same time, there has been a global increase in climate litigation. Activists increasingly use litigation and fundamental and human rights as instruments to enforce their demands for intergenerational justice. READ MORE

  5. 4. Corporate liability for climate change - Is Milieudefensie a sign of what is to come?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Johan Åhman; [2022]
    Keywords : public international law; private international law; comparative law; private law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Where states have failed to take the threat of global warming seriously, private individuals and environmental organizations have confronted those contributing to it. By bringing the emitters to court, litigants all over the world hope to put an end to the current trajectory towards dangerous climate change. READ MORE

  6. 5. Climate Change Litigation Based on Human Rights : challenges and possbilities in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Isabella Parling; [2021]
    Keywords : Climate Litigation; International Human Rights Law; Positive Obligations; European Convention on Human Rights; Climate Change; Paris Agreement; Jus Cogens;

    Abstract : Climate change litigation is expanding at fast speed throughout various jurisdictions around the world. Citizens are taking states’ lack of climate mitigation measures to courts, demanding that more has to be done on the climate crisis. READ MORE