Hawaii’s top court issued a ruling this week recognizing a human right to a stable climate, a decision that could reverberate in other rights-based climate cases in the US and beyond.
The basis for the decision, that citizens have an affirmative right “to a life-sustaining climate system,” is the first of its kind related to climate litigation in the US, and it could be of use in other decisions, according to Maria Antonia Tigre, a Sabin Center global climate litigation fellow.
“We do see a lot of that cross-fertilization in climate litigation nowadays, and just having that interpretation of the ...
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