nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/9eb520751788b5e6 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260128s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/9eb520751788b5e6 doi eng 342 23 Donger, Elizabeth Author aut The State Duty Not to Approve New Fossil Fuels - Converging Science and Law Donger, Elizabeth Verfassungsblog 2026-01-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A growing number of cases worldwide are challenging State approval of new fossil fuel projects: from Ireland to Guyana, Greece to South Africa. UN Secretary General, António Guterres, describes such projects as “moral and economic madness”. But since 2021, over 2,300 new extraction projects and 119 new LNG Terminals have been approved for development worldwide. States’ approval of new fossil fuel projects is fundamentally incompatible with their international law duties. CC BY-SA 4.0 Climate Climate Crisis climate litigation Fossil Fuel Human Rights ICJ Advisory Opinion Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-state-duty-not-to-approve-new-fossil-fuels/ raw object