Human Rights and the Planet

Edited by Natalia Kobylarz, Senior Lawyer, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights and Evadne Grant, Associate Lecturer, University of the West of England, UK and Senior Editor, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

Contents:

Editorial
Human Rights the Planet: the future of environmental human rights in the
European Court of Human Rights
Natalia Kobylarz and Evadne Grant 1

Articles
Interview: P Sands (PS) in conversation with R Spano (RS) – 8 July 2021 6
Balancing its way out of strong anthropocentrism: integration of
‘ecological minimum standards’ in the European Court of Human Rights’
‘fair balance’ review
Natalia Kobylarz 16
Inter-American approaches to the protection of the right to a healthy
environment and the Rights of Nature and potential contributions to the
European human rights system
Jorge Calderón-Gamboa and Julie Diane Recinos 86
Does the European Convention on Human Rights guarantee a human right
to clean and healthy air? Litigating at the nexus between human rights and
the environment – the practitioners’ perspective
Irmina Kotiuk, Adam Weiss and Ugo Taddei 122
The climate change dimension of human rights: due diligence and states’
positive obligations
Christina Voigt 152
The future of environmental cases in the European Court of Human Rights:
extraterritoriality, victim status, treaty interpretation, attribution, imminence
and ‘due diligence’ in climate change cases
Monica Feria-Tinta 172
The Strasbourg Principles of International Environmental Human Rights
Law – 2022 195