Child/youth climate litigation: tracking children’s rights and and children’s impact
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2025-07
Authors
Daly, Aoife
Muller, Liesl Heila
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Washington & Lee Law Review
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Children and youth have been engaging extensively in climate action around the world. They have been doing this by protesting in the streets, talking with governments, and most recently by taking climate litigation against governments and companies. In this Article, these climate cases are considered from a children’s rights perspective. Using the Youth Climate Justice database, fifty cases are analyzed to consider two aspects of climate litigation—the children’s rights involved in the case, and the significance of the outcomes of the cases. It is concluded that climate cases are a new form of child participation in society, and that child participation has moved from (1) being something primarily aimed at benefiting children to (2) a phenomenon that can benefit the human rights of all.
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Children’s rights , Children’s impact , Youth Climate Justice database , Climate litigation , Child participation in society
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Daly, A. and Muller, L. (2025) 'Child/youth climate litigation: tracking children’s rights and and children’s impact', Washington & Lee Law Review 82(3), pp. 1049-1072. https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol82/iss3/7
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