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On November 30, the Brussels Court of Appeal rendered a landmark decision in the climate case brought by “Klimaatzaak” (“climate case” in Dutch) against Belgian public authorities (the federal and the three regional governments). In this decision, the court found the federal authority and the Brussels and Flemish regions’ climate action to be in violation of Articles 2 and 8 of the ECHR and of their duty of care, and imposed a minimal GHG reduction target to be reached by Belgian authorities for the future. In their blogpost, Alice Briegleb and Antoine De Spiegeleir provide a clear overview of the case, exploring its previous stages and insisting on the continuing failures of the Belgian climate governance and its complex federal structure. We focus on our part on how the decision makes it clear that the climate justice movement is now confronted with the tension between the legally required and the ethically desirable parameters of climate effort distribution. CC BY-SA 4.0 Petel, Matthias Climate Constitutionalism Climate Crisis Klimaatzaak Klimakatastrophe climate change litigation climate litigation Klimakatastrophe 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-belgian-climate-case/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/f9b1ef7c677ed70c 231205 10.59704/f9b1ef7c677ed70c Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)