# Emerging Trends 

By [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@0x6bc234cc07c29531b45ae26ca3573252b363ec1f) · 2021-12-09

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The appellants of the _Urgenda case_ and _Cavelho case_ have abstained from taking the right-based approach for pressing on the need for reducing GHG emissions. In the EU regime, a right to a “stable climate” as recognised by the [_US Julian Case_](https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fscience%2Farchive%2F2020%2F01%2Fread-fiery-dissent-childrens-climate-case%2F605296%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccf8161f72d854ea1a08808d9326600b7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637596235976451105%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=AVQSxa77rR%2B2a69lh5xELI1t%2F5PNzbfWbtrry82VyLU%3D&reserved=0), can potentially fall into the appellant’s right to life, health, equal treatment, the welfare of children, among others. Such mobilization of the individuals to CJEU, on the pretext of the violation of fundamental rights, may create a special space for climate change litigation—eventually shifting the interest groups at tectonic levels. In this scenario, there is no clear acceptance of stable climate right by the CoE, although the council recognises the nexus between environmental rights and climate change. The appellants of both the cases precluded themselves from invoking such a fundamental right as they had substantive supranational level agreements and legal instruments to invoke rather than loosely weaved in the fundamental right. The Urgenda and Cavelho approach is taken in the Italian [_Giudizo Universale case_](https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D%26cad%3Drja%26uact%3D8%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjI4NL44rztAhX3ILcAHW-lBM4QFjABegQIAhAC%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fgiudiziouniversale.eu%252Fhome-english-version%252F%26usg%3DAOvVaw1qdKMOvWRx34l0y-g7g92C&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccf8161f72d854ea1a08808d9326600b7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637596235976461054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=TeKbUPrdnqB0Kgj2KLOn4kWmhACTcP%2FKEUk%2BpyyActI%3D&reserved=0) in which NGOs and citizen groups have started a “Universal Judgment Campaign” seeking Urgenda like results in Italy. Such litigations are opening new ways for integration dynamics, among the anti-climate change citizen groups and central European fuel-based economies like  Hungary and Poland.

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*Originally published on [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@0x6bc234cc07c29531b45ae26ca3573252b363ec1f/emerging-trends)*