IGSD’s jurisprudence compendium of key climate cases analyzes 29 climate cases from 22 jurisdictions worldwide.
These cases were selected to highlight the following important themes in global climate change jurisprudence.
- Supervision and accountability of state and non-state actors in addressing climate change
- Use and importance of climate science
- Human rights and climate change
- States’ obligations under international treaties to address climate change
- Judicial development and evolution of legal principles to address climate change
- Access to justice and legal standing to bring climate cases
IGSD’s supplementary brief presented to the Inter-American Human Rights Court Advisory Opinion Proceedings on the Human Right to Resilience. This supplementary brief further addresses the legal obligations of States to establish and maintain climate resilience in response to the climate emergency to protect and ensure human rights.
Also available in Spanish, El Reconocimiento del Derecho Humano a la Resiliencia en Tiempos de Emergencia Climática, here.
As climate change increasingly impacts our lives, international and regional judicial advisory opinions are reshaping our approach to the climate emergency from an international law perspective. We are at an historic juncture, with three major international courts issuing advisory opinions on States’ obligations to address the climate emergency. These opinions could become crucial tools in advancing human rights protection and science-based climate governance. They may prompt concrete, timely climate actions and policies, transitioning from discretionary to mandatory measures and potentially igniting a new wave of climate litigation.
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