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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230928-223415-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/act-three-for-climate-litigation-in-strasbourg/ Act Three for Climate Litigation in Strasbourg - The ECtHR’s Grand Chamber Hearing in the Portuguese Children’s Case Heri, Corina eng 2023-09-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Climate Crisis climate litigation ECtHR Human Rights Right to Life Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Yesterday, on 27 September 2023, a historic hearing took place before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. The Court heard the Duarte Agostinho case, brought by six Portuguese children and young people against a whopping 33 Member States of the Council of Europe. Having heard two other climate cases this past March (the KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland and Carême v. France cases, respectively), this was the Court’s final hearing before it issues its first-ever findings on climate change. It was also the Court’s first youth climate case. For several reasons, yesterday’s hearing was a historic one: Duarte Agostinho is the Grand Chamber’s biggest-yet climate case, both in terms of the substantive rights invoked and the number of States involved.