Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis

Alexandra Phelan; David Patterson; Farhang Tahzib; Benjamin Mason Meier; Marlies Hesselman; Chenguang Wang; Lawrence Gostin

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00875-4

Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis

Alexandra Phelan^*
, David Patterson
, Farhang Tahzib
, Benjamin Mason Meier
, Marlies Hesselman
, Chenguang Wang
, Lawrence Gostin

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2272-2274
Number of pages	3
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	403
Issue number	10441
Early online date	1-May-2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00875-4
Publication status	Published - May-2024

Keywords

climate change
global health law
human rights
right to health
climate litigation
ECHR
International Court of Justice
WHO

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Ensuring health at the heart of climate change Advisory Opinion
Hesselman, M., Patterson, D., Phelan, A., Meier, B. M., Tahzib, F. & Gostin, L., Jan-2025, In: The Lancet. 405, 10474, p. 178-181 4 p.
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Environmental Health: Towards Synthesis in Global Law and Governance
Phelan, A., Negri, S. & Hesselman, M., 2025, In: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 53, S1, p. 41-45 5 p.
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Milieudefensie v Shell: 3 Takeaways and Challenges on the Appeal’s Court Decision
Hesselman, M. & Tigre, M. A., 12-Dec-2024, Columbia Law School.
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Rights-based climate change litigation: Comparing the Netherlands and Indonesia
Hesselman, M. (Speaker)
25-Sept-2024
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Hesselman, M. (Member)
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Climate change litigation, public health and the right to health
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20-Feb-2024
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Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis

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Research output

Ensuring health at the heart of climate change Advisory Opinion

Environmental Health: Towards Synthesis in Global Law and Governance

Milieudefensie v Shell: 3 Takeaways and Challenges on the Appeal’s Court Decision

Activities

Rights-based climate change litigation: Comparing the Netherlands and Indonesia

Global Health Law Consortium (External organisation)

Climate change litigation, public health and the right to health

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