Litigating the climate emergency : how human rights, courts, and legal mobilization can bolster climate action

Litigating the climate emergency how human rights, courts, and legal mobilization can bolster climate action

As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases - litigation that is based on human rights law - are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic analysis of the universe of these cases known as huma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rodríguez Garavito, César A., editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2023.
Edición:First edition
Colección:GGlobalization and human rights (Cambridge, England)
Materias:
Climatic changes > Law and legislation.
Actions and defenses.
Environmental justice.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009769414006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Litigating the climate emergency : the global rise of right-based litigation for climate action / César Rodríguez-Garavito
  • The social and political life of human rights climate change litigation : mobilizing the law to address the climate crisis / Lisa Vanhal
  • Thinking strategically about climate litigation / Ben Batros and Tessa Khan
  • The quest for butterfly climate adjudication / Catalina Vallejo and Siri Gloppe
  • Climate litigation through an equality lens / James Goldston
  • Two reputed allis : reconciling climate justice and litigation in the Global South / Juan Auz
  • 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
  • Litmus tests as tools for tribunals to assess state human rights obligations to reduce carbon emissions / Ashfaz Khalfan
  • The farmer or the hero? Modes of climate litigation in the Global South / Jolene in and Jacqueline Peel
  • The impacts of high profile litigation against major fossil fuel companies / Joana Setzer
  • Climate science and human rights : using attribution science to frame government mitigation and adaptation obligations / Michael Burger, Jessica Wentz, and Daniel Metzger
  • The evolution of corporate accountability for climate change / Richard Heede
  • Providing evidence gap to support strategic climate enforcement and litigation / Reinhold Gallmetzer
  • The case for climate visuals in the courtroom : the case for urgent and creative action / Kelly Matheson
  • The story of our lives : narrative change strategies in climate litigation / Laura Gyte, Violeta Barrera, and Lucy Singer
  • Courts, climate action, and human rights : lessons from the friends of the Irish Environment v. Ireland Case / Victoria Adelmant, Philip Alston, and Matthew Blainey
  • Closing the supply-side accountability gap through climate litigation / Michelle Jonker-Argueta
  • 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
  • Is there a Brazilian approach to climate litigation? The climate crisis political instability and litigation possibilities in Brazil / Julia Neiva and Gabriel Mantelli
  • Climate change litigation in India : its potential and challenges / Arpithat Kodiveri
  • The tide of climate litigation is upon us in Africa / Pooven Moodley
  • Pakistan : a good story that can go awry if shortcomings remain unacknowledged / Waqqas Mir.

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