Litigating the Climate Emergency

How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action
Herausgeber: Rodríguez-Garavito, César

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines climate change lawsuits that are based on human rights law. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal doctrines, effects, and strategies associated with this kind of litigation, equipping readers with a global and interdisciplinary understanding of this type of legal action.

Produktdetails

• Globalization and Human Rights
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781009102155
• ISBN-10: 100910215X
• Artikelnr.: 68886741

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Litigating the Climate Emergency: 1. The Global Rise of Right-Based
Litigation for Climate Action, César Rodríguez-Garavito; 2. The Social and
Political Life of Human Rights Climate Change Litigation: Mobilizing the
Law to Address the Climate Crisis, Lisa Vanhal; Part II. Legal Strategy in
Rights-Based Climate Litigation: 3. Thinking Strategically About Climate
Litigation, Ben Batros and Tessa Khan; 4. The Quest for Butterfly Climate
Adjudication, Catalina Vallejo and Siri Gloppe; 5. Climate Litigation
Through an Equality Lens, James Goldston; 6. Two Reputed Allis: Reconciling
Climate Justice and Litigation in the Global South, Juan Auz; 7. Staying
within Atmospheric and Judicial Limits: Core Principles for Assessing
Whether State Action on Climate Change Complies with Human Rights, Sophie
Marjanac and Sam Hunter Jones; 8. Litmus Tests as Tools for Tribunals to
Assess State Human Rights Obligations to Reduce Carbon Emissions, Ashfaz
Khalfan; 9. The Farmer or the Hero? Modes of Climate Litigation in the
Global South, Jolene Lin and Jacqueline Peel; 10. The Impacts of High
Profile Litigation Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies, Joana Setzer; Part
III. Beyond The Law; Science and Narratives in Rights-Based Climate
Litigation: 11. Climate Science and Human Rights: Using Attribution Science
to Frame Government Mitigation and Adaptation Obligations, Michael Burger,
Jessica Wentz, and Daniel Metzger; 12. The Evolution of Corporate
Accountability for Climate Change, Richard Heede; 13. Providing Evidence
Gap to Support Strategic Climate Enforcement and Litigation, Reinhold
Gallmetzer; 14. The Case for Climate Visuals in the Courtroom: The Case for
Urgent and Creative Action, Kelly Matheson; 15. The Story of our Lives:
Narrative Change Strategies in Climate Litigation, Laura Gyte, Violeta
Barrera, and Lucy Singer; Part IV. The Climate Emergency on Trial: Human
Rights and Climate Litigation around the World; 16. Courts, Climate Action,
and Human Rights: Lessons from the Friends of the Irish Environmnet v.
Ireland Case, Victoria Adelmant, Philip Alston, and Matthew Blainey; 17.
Closing the Supply-Side Accountability Gap Through Climate Litigation,
Michelle Jonker-Argueta; 18. Climate Litigation Before International
Tribunals: The Six Portuguese Youth v. 33 Governments of Europe Case Before
the European Court of Human Rights, Gerry Liston and Paul Clark; 19. Is
There a Brazilian Approach to Climate Litigation? The Climate Crisis,
Political Instability and Litigation Possibilities in Brazil, Julia Neiva
and Gabriel Mantelli; 20. Climate Change Litigation in India: Its Potential
and Challenges, Arpithat Kodiveri; 21. The Tide of Climate Litigation is
Upon us in Africa, Pooven Moodley; 22. Pakistan: A Good Story That Can Go
Awry If Shortcomings Remain Unacknowledged, Waqqas Mir.