The Rights of Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis

Action and Litigation

Aoife Daly, Florencia Paz Landeira, Liesl H. Muller (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032287959 (ISBN)

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The climate crisis is a human rights crisis as health, homes, education and numerous other areas of human life are affected. In this work, the authors examine how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the climate crisis, and argues that children and youth are rights-makers, reshaping legal and political norms for everyone. The authors also analyse ways in which children/youth are leading the fight against climate change with rights advocacy. Their climate action at national level, in international fora and in the courts is examined. It is concluded that children/youth have had distinct impacts across these different arenas in which human rights are shaped. Participation rights for children/youth then are bringing tangible change not just for themselves, but for everyone.

The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in Human Rights Law, Children’s Rights, Environmental Law, Childhood Studies and Social Policy. It will also likely benefit climate advocates, litigators and others as it outlines doctrinal footholds and procedural innovations in the area.

Florencia Paz Landeira is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Youth Climate Justice project at University College Cork. Florencia holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National University of San Martin (Argentina). Her academic research and teaching focus on childhood policies and children’s rights within the context of the climate crisis and situated socio-environmental conflicts Liesl H. Muller is a PhD Researcher with the Youth Climate Justice project at University College Cork. She holds an LLM from the University of the Witwatersrand and an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria (UP). She is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa practising at the Centre for Child Law (UP), where she represents children and youth in strategic litigation on social justice issues. Aoife Daly is Professor of Law at University College Cork and specialises in human rights law. In 2023, she secured a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for her project Youth Climate Justice, to carry out a large-scale research study 2023-2028 on child/youth climate justice - inside and outside the courts - around the world. The project involves an interdisciplinary team working with children, youth and others to analyse their experiences of youth climate action in climate cases, at COP, and in their communities.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Climate Change, Children/Youth and the Right to a Healthy Environment Chapter 3 From Protection to Participation: Climate Change and Children’s Rights under the CRC Chapter 4 The Rise of Child and Youth Climate Action Chapter 5 Child/Youth Climate Action and Climate Governance: Local to International Arenas Chapter 6 Child and Youth-Involved Climate Litigation: Child/Youth Climate Action in the Courts Chapter 7 Child/Youth Climate Litigation: Outcomes and Impacts for Human Rights Chapter 8 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Human Rights and International Law
Zusatzinfo	8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781032287959 / 9781032287959
Zustand	Neuware