First Czech Climate Litigation from the Perspective of International Environmental Law

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

First Czech Climate Litigation from the Perspective of International Environmental Law

Original language description

The Czech Supreme Administrative Court dealt with its first case of climate litigation initiated by four natural persons, two associations, and one municipality against the Czech government and four ministries. In February 2023, the Court stated that neither the Paris Agreement nor other sources of international, European, nor Czech law had so far contained a clear obligation of public authorities to mitigate climate change with specific,exactly defi ned measures. According to the Court, at that time it was still the task of the EU to defi ne the exact goals that would lead to fulfilling the obligations prescribed by the Paris Agreement. Therefore, in the absence of such goals, four Czech ministries have not breached the law or claimant&apos;s rights by being insufficiently active in climate change mitigation or adaptation. Th e Court claimed that if it had decided differently, it wouldconstitute an unacceptable juridical interference with legislative and political powers. The article summarises the litigation and analyses whether and how its outcomes contribute to the development of international environmental law.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law

ISSN

1805-0565

e-ISSN

1805-0999

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2023

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

471-483

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85185695972