Energy Intensive Companies and Interests of Current and Future Generations

ŠVEC, Martin. Energy Intensive Companies and Interests of Current and Future Generations. In An interdisciplinary International Conference on “Liberalism and Ecology in the Anthropocene”. 2022.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Energy Intensive Companies and Interests of Current and Future Generations
• Autoři: ŠVEC, Martin.
• Vydání: An interdisciplinary International Conference on “Liberalism and Ecology in the Anthropocene” 2022.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Prezentace na konferencích
• Stát vydavatele: Itálie
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Právnická fakulta
• Klíčová slova česky: energetické právo; právo životního prostředí; Shell; klimatická žaloba; udržitelný rozvoj; budoucí generace; atropocén
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Energy Law; Environmental Law; Shell; Climate Litigation; Sustainable Development; Future Generations; Anthropocene
• Štítky: CO2, energetické právo, klimatická žaloba, klimatické právo, Pařížská dohoda, shell, UNFCCC
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam

Anotace

The preamble of the UNFCCC states that "change in the Earth's climate and its adverse effects are a common concern of humankind". Hence, the UNFCCC calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries. More specifically, states should enact effective environmental legislation including environmental standards, management objectives and priorities reflecting the environmental and developmental context to which they apply. Although the Paris Agreements emphasised the importance of the engagements of various actors in addressing climate change, no direct obligations have been imposed on non-state actors. Nonetheless, a rapid increase in climate litigation against energy intensive companies has occurred around the world. The paper aims to explore legal standards applied in climate litigation against energy intensive companies and emphasises limits of national law for these purposes. Against this background, the author analyses a judgment rendered by the Hague District Court in Milieudefensie et al v Royal Dutch Shell. Although both the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement often refer to present and future generations, the Hague District Court concluded that NGOs’ claims were admissible only to the extent that they related to the interests of current and future generations of Dutch residents, and not the world’s population as a whole, because there are differences in the time and manner in which the global population at various locations will be affected by global warming caused by CO2 emissions.