CLIMA Lunch Seminar: Green access to justice and climate change litigation in italy

Abstract
Literature has shown that climate change litigation is indeed a fertile ground for the development of European juridical systems and the overcoming of – we can say – secular legal dogmas. And in this context, the Italian way to a successful climate litigation (and let’s say, a public interest litigation in general) is still missing. In the Italian most famous climate litigation case, “Giudizio Universale”, the claimants opted for a strategic approach, rather than an effective one; and the civil judge (Tribunale di Roma) dismissed the case, as expected, immediately highlighting «the particularity of the claim», as it aimed at obtaining an order for the State-legislator and for the government to a specific facere «in a matter traditionally reserved to “politics”», putting other interesting arguments forward. Moving from the obstacles that access to environmental and climate justice encounters in Italy, I will try to outline the possible ways for a successful climate litigation in Italy.

About the speaker
Emanuele Guarna Assanti is a postdoctoral researcher in Administrative and Environmental Law at the University of Calabria (Cosenza, Italy). He also teaches Environmental Law and Ecological Transition and Public Corporate Governance at the University “Guglielmo Marconi” (Rome, Italy). He obtained a PhD in Public, Urban Planning and Environmental Law at the University of Florence. He was visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) and at the University of Valencia.

Information:

Venue: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law,4th floor, room 6B-4-04, South Campus, Njalsgade 76, DK-2300 Copenhagen S and online on Zoom (link will be provided after registration).

Time: 12:00-13:00.

Registration: For participation in the event please use this registration form no later than 30th of January 2025 at 12:00 PM.