The meaning of carbon budget within a wide margin of appreciation: the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment

Hilson, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-6471 (2024) The meaning of carbon budget within a wide margin of appreciation: the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment. Verfassungsblog. doi: 10.59704/8c4e66bfedce514e

Abstract/Summary

Although the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment discusses a number of rights of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), including Article 6 (right of access to a court), Article 2 (right to life), and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), the focus of this blog post is on its discussion of Article 8 (right to private, home and family life). The question raised by that discussion is whether the judgment is one that will “frighten the horses” and lead to oppositional cries of judicial overreach around the separation of powers, or if it is more an unexceptional case of “move on, nothing to see here.” My argument is that the judgment is mostly the latter but that it has what, in computer gaming terms, is known as an “Easter egg” – a hidden element included by the developers to surprise and reward those who look carefully. That could turn out to be more controversial.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/116088
Identification Number/DOI	10.59704/8c4e66bfedce514e
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
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