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Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment in the Climate Emergency: A View from Above

2020-11-02

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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into the spotlight the links between measures to tackle air pollution, protect human rights and address climate change. This article therefore scrutinises the extent to which the right to a healthy environment has been invoked in the growing body of human rights-based climate litigation in general, and to demand the enforcement of air quality standards in particular. By looking at...

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Literature Corpus work: 4c892b0b-9cbc-57ec-bf01-99b07e58d484
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3722080

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