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“BREAKING NEW GROUND: CLIMATE CHANGE BEFORE THE STRASBOURG COURT”

Author(s): Linos-Alexander Sicilianos and Maria-Louiza Deftou

A short comment written by Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, Vice President of the MFHR and Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, and Dr. Maria-Louiza Deftou, Research Fellow at the MFHR, was published in the blog of the Εuropean Journal of International Law – EJIL: Talk!, regarding the recent ECtHR’s judgments on climate change, entitled “Breaking New Ground: Climate Change before the Strasbourg Court”. The post comments on the “added value” mainly of the judgments in the KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland and Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others cases, as well as the overall strategic role of the Court in such cases.

The comment is available here.

Publication Details

  • Date of publication:
    2024
  • Publisher:
    Blog of the Εuropean Journal of International Law – EJIL: Talk!
Breaking New Ground Climate Change before the Strasbourg Court - ejil talk
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