Another Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency? The Added Value of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Juan Auz is an Ecuadorian lawyer, postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University’s Law School, and doctoral researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights in Berlin. Former Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He holds an LL.B. from Universidad de las Americas in Quito and an LL.M. in Global Environmental Law from the University of Edinburgh.

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Another Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency? The Added Value of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

March 2, 2023

Juan Auz

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The highest human rights tribunal in the Americas, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), sits in Costa Rica’s capital San Jose, part of a region significantly exposed and vulnerable to climate impacts. If the global temperature continues to rise due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that remain trapped in the atmosphere, enjoying the whole…