October 9, 2018

OECD: Governments have not taken the necessary action to contain growing risks to the climate

OECD: Three years on from the commitments made at COP21 in Paris, the overwhelming majority of governments have not taken the necessary action to contain growing risks to the climate. With emissions on the rise again, OECD governments need to get serious about shifting their economies to a low-carbon model and stop investing in carbon-intensive …

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European Court of Human Rights: beyond the limits of the “link” in the protection of environmental rights

Abstract The scope for environmental protection through existing and internationally protected human rights is conditioned upon the establishment of a ‘link’ between environmental degradation and the impairment of a protected right. This constitutes a limit for the use of human rights as a tool to promote environmental protection.The aim of this article is to briefly …

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