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This article examines whether the widely accepted political theory contributions on fair burden sharing, harm avoidance and a just distribution of the remaining carbon budget can (and ought to) be incorporated or reflected in judicial reasoning on causation in systemic rights-based climate litigation. It explores whether a wider use of the European Court of Human Rights’ lenient approach to causation at the national level could help overcome some of the causal difficulties that might otherwise excuse wealthy developed country governments that are signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights from responsibility. The article also considers how rights-based arguments might be a way of operationalizing climate justice in judicial reasoning in systemic rights-based climate cases in Europe.
* orla.kelleher@ucdconnect.ie
Orla Kelleher is a PhD candidate at the UCD Sutherland School of Law and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Limerick. Her doctoral research was funded by an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. I would like to thank Dr Andrew Jackson, Prof Suzanne Kingston, Prof Eoin Carolan and Dr Alexa Zellentin for their comments on an earlier draft, and the two anonymous reviewers and the JHRE editors for their kind and helpful comments on the manuscript. Responsibility for any remaining shortcomings of style or substance are mine alone.
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- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 FAIR ALLOCATION OF RESPONSIBILITY: FROM POLITICAL THEORY TO INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW
- 3 THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE LAW OF THE ECtHR, THE CAUSATION CONUNDRUM FOR CLIMATE HARM AND THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
- 4 CAUSATION IN DOMESTIC SYSTEMIC RIGHTS-BASED CLIMATE LITIGATION: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE?
- 5 CONCLUSION
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