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Environmental Degradation as Age Discrimination

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Gosseries, Axel [UCL]

This paper argues that anti-age-discrimination law can be used in environmental litigation to combat environmental degradation, including climate inaction. This claim is premised on the possibility of a cohortal reading of anti-age-discrimination law, allowing to challenge discriminatory environmental degradation between generations. Such a cohortal reading received implicit legal support e.g. in the 2012 Commission v. Hungary ECJ case. We specify the personal and material scope conditions under which this strategy could be legally successful.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Journal information "E-Publica. Revista electrónica de Direito Público" - Vol. 2, no. 2, p. 15 (2015)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 2183-184X
e-issn 2183-184X
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/ISP - Institut supérieur de philosophie
Keywords anti-discrimination law ; environmental law ; intergenerational equity ; age discrimination ; climate litigation ; atmospheric trust ; urgenda case
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Bibliographic reference Gosseries, Axel. Environmental Degradation as Age Discrimination. In: E-Publica. Revista electrónica de Direito Público, Vol. 2, no. 2, p. 15 (2015)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/165123