Cases mentioned
- A Sud et al. v Italy, Civil Court of Rome [2021]
- Decision no. 124/2010, Constitutional Court [2010], Decision no. 4768/2012, Council of State (Section V) [2012], Decision no. 4567/2016 (Section VI) [2016] (on the framing of international climate laws within the Italian constitutional system)
- Decision no. 2572/2021 and 7343/2021, Supreme Court (Section V) [2021], (on the legal bindingness of international climate law)
- Decision no. 641/1987, Constitutional Court [1987], (on the civil responsibility of the state for environmental damages)
For more country specific context and relevant national climate change law see: https://climate-laws.org/geographies/italy
This country report has been produced by Carlotta Garofalo, C2LI Research Assistant, Humzah Khan, C2LI Senior Research Assistant and Lydia Omuko-Jung, C2LI Legal Analyst. The summary is based on Barbara Pozzo, “The Italian path to climate change: nothing new under the sun” in F. Sindico and M. Moise Mbengue, Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Springer, 2021.