nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/7f181fdb5828980d DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250722s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/7f181fdb5828980d doi eng 342 23 Kahl, Verena Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3722-3780 Protecting Rights in the Anthropocene - How the Inter‑American Court’s Right to a Healthy Climate Pushes the Boundaries of Human Rights Law Kahl, Verena Verfassungsblog 2025-07-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued its long-awaited Advisory Opinion No. 32 (AO-32/25) on the “Climate Emergency and Human Rights”. With its opinion, the IACtHR became the first human rights monitoring body to recognize that a healthy climate is an autonomous and justiciable human right. This blog post traces the emergence of this new right within the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) and highlights its most transformative elements for theory and practice. CC BY-SA 4.0 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis Climate Emergency climate litigation Human Rights IACtHR Right to a Healthy Climate Rodríguez-Orúe, José Daniel Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/iacthr-right-to-a-healthy-climate/ raw object