Legal implications of the climate-health crisis: A case study analysis of the role of public health in climate litigation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strong scientific evidence affirms that climate change is now a public health emergency. Increasingly, climate litigation brought against governments and corporations utilizes international human rights, environmental and climate laws and policies to seek accountability for climate-destructive and health-harming actions. The health impacts of climate change make litigation an important means of pursuing justice and strategically challenging legal systems. Yet there is scant documentation in the literature of the role that public health has played in climate litigation and the legal weight public health narratives are given in such contexts. Therefore, we assessed to what extent courts of law have used public health harm in legal adjudication and sought to provide practic

SUBMITTER: Toolan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200309 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature