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

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Thalia Viveros-Uehara is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.

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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

Thalia Viveros-Uehara

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…