For the last six years, together with a handful of colleagues and friends from around the world, we have worked with the Government of Vanuatu to develop and…

Introduction On 3rd July, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its long-awaited advisory opinion on the climate emergency and human rights. This advisory opinion…

Next week, states will convene in Busan, South Korea, for the fifth – and in theory final – session of the Intergovernmental…

Introduction  Globally, biodiversity is in crisis with one million species under threat of extinction and rapid declines in ecosystem functioning, overreaching planetary boundaries.

KlimaSeniorinnen follow-up: five issues and ways forward With its KlimaSeniorinnen judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) established a Convention-based climate…

The European Court of Human Rights’ judgments in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland, Carême v France, and Duarte Agostinho v Portugal…

In its judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Grand Chamber ruled that Switzerland had acted…

In his dissenting opinion in Klimaseniorinnen, Judge Eicke argues that the majority has gone “well beyond … the permissible limits of evolutive interpretation” in finding a violation of…

The European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) climate decisions are out, and comments followed suit (for general overviews: here, here, and…

In his vigorous, thoroughly readable, partly dissenting opinion to the recent ECtHR climate change ruling (Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland), Judge Eicke wonders…