http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/be4f35f9c9b8ec7c https://verfassungsblog.de/enhanced-due-diligence-climate-iacthr/ Enhanced Due Diligence - A New Legal Standard for Climate Action in the Inter-American System  da Costa Sales, Rodrigo eng 2025-07-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis Climate Emergency Due Dilligence IACtHR Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The IACtHR establishes that States have a series of obligations to ensure a healthy environment and climate, and prevent violations of human rights. To this end, the IACtHR develops the standard of enhanced due diligence as a binding framework for State action. This standard includes elements aimed at ensuring that the response to climate change is effective, fair, transparent, and evidence-based (para. 224). This blog post discusses the heightened due diligence standard, as clarified by the IACtHR, and outlines nine key elements of this standard.