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The Emergence of Climate Litigation in the Global South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2021

Jolene Lin
Jolene Lin*
Affiliation:
Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law at the National University of Singapore.
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Extract

Climate litigation in the Global South tends to be couched in rights-based clams including the right to life and a clean and healthy environment. Jolene Lin explained that this is in part due to the fact that many jurisdictions in the Global South have embedded environmental rights in their constitutions and, in some cases, courts have interpreted the right to life to include the right to a clean and healthy environment.

Type
Climate Change Litigation and the Future of the International Climate Change Regime
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 114 , 2020 , pp. 85 - 86
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 Jacqueline Peel & Jolene Lin, Transnational Climate Litigation: The Contribution of the Global South, 113 AJIL 679 (2019).