Chairs:

• Natalia Castro Niño – castro.nato@gmail.com
• Juan Sebastián Villamil Rodríguez – juansevillamil@gmail.com
• Silvia Romboli – silvia.romboli@esade.edu
• Liliana Ávila – lavila@aida-americas.org
• Ángela Aday Jiménez – angeladj@ucm.es

SPEAKERS

Ángel	Aday
Daniel	Cerqueira
Edward	Pérez
Jose Miguel	Camacho Castro
Liliana	Ávila
Lina	Muñoz Avila

The climate emergency constitutes a decisive challenge for constitutional democracies and for the comprehensive protection of constitutional human rights. The planet’s rising temperatures, driven by industrial activity, are already producing visible and tragic consequences for life on Earth, such as rising sea levels, with incalculable future damage if decisive measures are not taken.

Around the world, courts are being called upon to provide institutional responses to climate deterioration, aiming to prevent and mitigate the adverse effects of this phenomenon on fundamental rights. Recent advisory opinions on climate change issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea illustrate how international judicial bodies are shaping an emerging legal framework regarding states’ climate obligations.

This workshop invites submissions that analyze how these and other judicial remedies, as well as public and private participation mechanisms, are being used to confront the climate crisis and strengthen sustainable constitutionalism.

We welcome analyses on how constitutional and international courts are deploying innovative tools—such as structural rulings, advisory opinions, and jurisprudence on the rights of nature—to reinforce environmental and climate justice in both international law and comparative constitutional law. We also encourage work exploring the central role of rights to access information, participation, and justice, as well as the responsibilities of business actors in protecting human rights and the environment.