Environmental Justice and Climate Change Litigation: Analyzing The Role of Courts in Sustainable Development
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Climate change endangers sustainable development all over the world as well as human rights and ecosystems. Environmental justice has made courts around the world very important given the legal action filed on them due to climate change. It discusses the ways in which the courts have been using the principle of precaution, the principle of polluter-pays and intergenerational equity to seek legal action against governments and corporations to correct their harmful plots towards the environment and climate derailment. It speaks of landmark rulings, constitutional interpretations and global benchmarks, such as the Paris Agreement, justiciability, scientific ambiguity, and enforcement gaps, and global inequality. The role of the judiciary as a keeper of sustainable development and the necessity to have improved institutional framework to regulate climate change is highlighted in the report.
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