nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220323-001224-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220322s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220323-001224-0 doi eng 342 23 Viveros-Uehara, Thalia Author aut The Right to Health in Climate Change Litigation - A Transformative Pathway for Addressing Latin America’s Health Crises Viveros-Uehara, Thalia Verfassungsblog 2022-03-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier As rights-based climate litigation continues to proliferate as a means to tackle perceived deficiencies in climate governance and regulation, new opportunities emerge for claimants and courts to acknowledge the inextricable link between climate change, inequalities, and health. Crucially, by ensuring the protection, respect, and fulfillment of all the normative components of the right to health of poor and socially marginalized persons and groups, courts can help overcome the Executive and Legislative branches’ failures to address climate change in contexts of high social and health inequalities. CC BY-SA 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-right-to-health-in-climate-change-litigation/ raw object