Climate change disputes in the Czech Republic

Title:

Climate change disputes in the Czech Republic

Creator:

Vojtěch Vomáčka and Ilona Jančářová

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:97c64deb-b7c7-44b3-9d6a-8214e453c9c0
uuid:97c64deb-b7c7-44b3-9d6a-8214e453c9c0
issn:1805-8396

Subject:

klimatické změny, znečištění ovzduší, climate changes, air pollution, Česko, Czechia, access to justice, actio popularis, 16, and 34

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

print, bez média, and svazek

Description:

This chapter is aimed at describing the relationship between individual rights and climate change agenda in the Czech Republic. Firstly, the authors provide a brief description of the Czech framework policy for climate change adaptation and specific acts dealing with the climate change. After that, the means of judicial protection in climate change disputes are analysed, with a particular emphasis on the role of administraitve courts. For better understanding, the authors present the most significant decisions of the Czech courts. They conclude that the courts may provide relatively effective protection against both public and private actors. however, climate change is still a new topic with which the applicants have not yet learned to work. In some cases, which are primarily concerned with other issues such as air pollution, climate change serves more as a supporting than a stand-alone argument. This is not likely to change any time soon, because the country is not affected by climate change to the degree it would be forced to act and immediate action would be deemed necessary. Moreover, the judicial review of the state policies is not allowed, even though at the governmental level, short-term economic goals are clearly preferred to the environmental agenda., Vojtěch Vomáčka, Ilona Jančářová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

The lawyer quarterly: international journal for legal research | 2018 Volume:8 | Number:4

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CDK

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