The State Duty Not to Approve New Fossil Fuels - Converging Science and Law
Donger, Elizabeth
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Verfassungsblog
2026-01-28
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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.
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Donger, Elizabeth
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Climate Crisis
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Fossil Fuel
Human Rights
ICJ Advisory Opinion
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