Environmental litigation and the CJEU : overcoming barriers to standing?

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dc.contributor.authorHOEK, Niels Marijn
dc.contributor.authorCROSERA, Arianna
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-15T08:21:00Z
dc.date.embargo2027-03-15
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 15 September 2025
dc.description.abstractIn the last decade, climate change litigation has skyrocketed in Europe and worldwide, placing courts at the core of a key dialogue between civil society and political institutions. In particular with regard to cases brought by NGOs and individuals, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) seems to have remained largely immune from this wave, having easily dismissed relevant climate cases due to the demanding standing threshold of the Plaumann test. But is climate change litigation truly impossible before the CJEU? This chapter outlines alternative avenues for standing in environmental cases for NGOs and individuals before the CJEU. More specifically, this contribution will argue that the recent amendment of the Aarhus Regulation, as well as the preliminary reference procedure, offer opportunities for calling the CJEU to its duties as the supreme court of the EU legal order. In the same breath, weremain critical of the EU's so-called complete system of remedies, as gaps persist in the access to justice for civil society.
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dc.identifier.citationCarla GOMES, Heloísa OLIVEIRA, Armando ROCHA and Matteo FERMEGLIA (eds), Climate change before International Courts: a comparative study, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2025, Routledge research in international environmental law, pp. 247-265
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003540977-13
dc.identifier.isbn9781003540977
dc.identifier.isbn9781032867892
dc.identifier.isbn9781032890487
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/93668
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/80488:191875401
dc.orcid.putcode1814/83309:192060460
dc.publisherRoutledge
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dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleEnvironmental litigation and the CJEU : overcoming barriers to standing?
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