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CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (online and in-person) – Jiewuh Song (Seoul National University)
罢颈迟濒别:听The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Case of Climate Change
Abstract: Once regarded as a marginal proposal in international human rights, the right to a healthy environment has gained surprisingly widespread acceptance in domestic law across the world. 聽Recently, the right has become an important part of global climate advocacy, often anchoring legal arguments for climate action. Yet the status of the right to a healthy environment in international human rights law remains uncertain, and theoretical suspicion about its justifiability persists. 聽Using the climate case as an illustrative example and drawing on both human rights theory and recent case law, I present a justification of the right to a healthy environment as a distinctly useful response to what I call structural threats to human rights, or widespread and causally opaque threats to the urgent interests that human rights are meant to protect. 聽This justification helps to guide our thinking about the content and adjudication of the right to a healthy environment.
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams