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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/77c842a193546b20 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-human-right-to-be-fossil-fuel-free/ 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 eng 2026-07-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Australia Climate climate change Climate Crisis fossil fuels Human Rights Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.