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Climate Constitutionalisation in Europe – After KlimaSeniorinnen and the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion

2025-08-15

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Several European courts have vested mitigation obligations with a hierarchically higher legal rank than ordinary state action. They construe these obligations from human rights in combination with international commitments and climate science. This phenomenon is here called ‘climate constitutionalisation’. In addition, we see an increasing escalation of climate cases to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a...

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Literature Corpus work: 68949a28-203d-5082-b1fe-e8484ab31679
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202508.1105.v1

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