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Journal of human rights and the environment, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-6
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SAVARESI, Annalisa, ALABRESE, Mariagrazia, SCOTT, Joanne, Editorial, Journal of human rights and the environment, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-6 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92780
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This editorial introduces a special collection of articles on the role of human rights law in climate litigation. The collection draws on selected papers presented at the ground-breaking workshop ‘Implementing the Paris Agreement: Comparative Lessons from the Global Human Rights Regime’, which took place on 6–7 May 2021 at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. The workshop brought together scholars and legal practitioners in order to share insights and explore the future potential of human-rights-based climate litigation. The idea behind both the workshop and this collection of articles is to take stock of recent developments in climate change litigation in order to ascertain the role of human rights in this rapidly growing area of legal practice. The aim is to identify future pathways to effectively use human rights arguments in climate change litigation at the international, regional and national level. In recent years, litigants around the world have increasingly tried to ‘push the boundaries of the law’,1 by filing test cases to prompt state and corporate actors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or to obtain redress for harm to persons, property or the environment associated with the impact of climate change. At the time of writing, this swelling body of climate litigation consists of hundreds of lawsuits raising questions of law or fact regarding climate science and climate change mitigation or adaptation, which have been brought before international or domestic judicial, quasi-judicial and other investigatory bodies.
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Published: March 2022