Book contents
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Comparing Climate Policies
- Part II Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms
- 10 European Green Deal, Climate Policies and the Energy Dilemma: Investment Protection versus Sustainable Investment?
- 11 Twin Transitions? Implementing Climate Policies in the European Union through Digital Transformation
- 12 Carbon Sequestration and Ocean Governance: Emerging Challenges between Traditional Sovereign Rights and the Need for Global Regulation
- 13 Climate Change and the Arctic: A Study of Paradoxical Linkages in Complex Systems
- 14 The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism as a (Generally Lawful) Countermeasure
- 15 Corporate Self-Regulation and the Climate: The Legal Trajectory of Sustainability Due Diligence in the European Union
- 16 Extending Ecolabelling in Response to Climate Change
- 17 The Role of Judges in Implementing Climate Policies
- 18 Private Climate Litigation
- 19 The International Court of Justice Facing the Existential Threat of Climate Change
- 20 ‘The Story Is Part of the Success’
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Cases
- Bibliography
- Index
19 - The International Court of Justice Facing the Existential Threat of Climate Change
What Legal Questions and for Whom?
from Part II - Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms
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- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Implementing Climate Change Policy
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Comparing Climate Policies
- Part II Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms
- 10 European Green Deal, Climate Policies and the Energy Dilemma: Investment Protection versus Sustainable Investment?
- 11 Twin Transitions? Implementing Climate Policies in the European Union through Digital Transformation
- 12 Carbon Sequestration and Ocean Governance: Emerging Challenges between Traditional Sovereign Rights and the Need for Global Regulation
- 13 Climate Change and the Arctic: A Study of Paradoxical Linkages in Complex Systems
- 14 The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism as a (Generally Lawful) Countermeasure
- 15 Corporate Self-Regulation and the Climate: The Legal Trajectory of Sustainability Due Diligence in the European Union
- 16 Extending Ecolabelling in Response to Climate Change
- 17 The Role of Judges in Implementing Climate Policies
- 18 Private Climate Litigation
- 19 The International Court of Justice Facing the Existential Threat of Climate Change
- 20 ‘The Story Is Part of the Success’
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Cases
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter maintains that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) may usefully intervene in the complex and multifaceted litigation that has developed before national and international tribunals, as well as human rights treaty bodies, concerning national climate policies adopted to implement international obligations. By considering the rationale and nature of climate litigation, the chapter seeks to point out what international law rules the ICJ should take into account (especially clarifying their existence and scope) in order to make a real contribution to national and international jurisprudence.
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- Implementing Climate Change PolicyDesigning and Deploying Net Zero Carbon Governance, pp. 301 - 312Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024