nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/77c842a193546b20 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260716s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/77c842a193546b20 doi eng 342 23 Peel, Jacqueline Author aut A Human Right to be Fossil Fuel Free? - A New Complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee Asserts Australians’ Rights to Protection from Fossil Fuel Pollution Peel, Jacqueline Verfassungsblog 2026-07-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Australia is a country highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with the weathered, arid continent frequently buffeted by fires, floods, heatwaves and storms. It is also one of the largest exporters globally of fossil fuels, coal and gas. Situated close to Pacific Islands existentially threatened by climate-fuelled rising seas, Australia is a constitutional democracy with an active civil society, an abiding commitment to the rule of international law and this year holds the role of “President of the Negotiations” for the UN climate summit, COP31. These contradictory forces play out in Australia’s domestic climate policy and are at the heart of a new international complaint – labelled the “Hard Truths” case. CC BY-SA 4.0 Australia Climate climate change Climate Crisis fossil fuels Human Rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-human-right-to-be-fossil-fuel-free/ raw object