The influence of climate litigation on managing climate change risks: the pioneering work of the Netherlands courts
2022
18
2
127-144
climate change ; risk management ; responsibility ; judicial decision ; European Convention on Human Rights
Law
https://doi.org/10.36633/ulr.801
English
Bibliogr.
"This paper analyses the way in which the responsibility for managing climate change risks is addressed by the Dutch courts in the Urgenda and Shell cases. A foundation called Urgenda initiated proceedings against the State of the Netherlands; followed by Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) initiating proceedings against Shell, a multinational oil corporation with, at the time, its headquarters still in the Netherlands. This paper looks at both these examples of climate litigation, with a focus on what the courts had to say about responsibilities for managing climate change risks."
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