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Export Processing Zone of Kenya & 10 Ors v The National Environment Management Authority & 6 Ors (Supreme Court of Kenya) (Petition E021 of 2023) [2024] KESC 75 (KLR)(6 December 2024)Supreme Court of Kenya
2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Courts Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Federación Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana v. Petroperú SA, Ministry of the Environment, and others, Superior Court of Justice Loreto, Civil Chamber (29 August 2024)
2024
South America Peru
Access to Justice Standing
Indigenous Peoples
Pollution, Water
Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland - Application no. 53600/20, Grand Chamber (European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg) (9 April 2024)
2024
Western Europe Switzerland
Access to Justice Standing
Climate Change Litigation United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights European Court of Human Rights
M K Ranjitsinh & Ors. v Union of India & Ors. Supreme Court of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 838 of 2019 with Civil Appeal No. 3570 of 2022 (judgment) (21 March 2024)
2024
South Asia India
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Energy Renewables
Right to ... Health
Sustainable Development
Wildlife Endangered species
Mussington v. Development Control Authority [2024] UKPC 3, Privy Council Appeal No 0116 of 2021
2024
Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda
Access to Justice Standing
Collins v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 2022-HC-DEM-CIV-FDA-1314
2023
South America Guyana
Access to Information
Oil & Gas Offshore oil & gas
Daniel Billy & Ors. v. Australia, CCPR/C/135/D/3624/2019
2022
Pacific Australia
Climate Change
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
PSB, P-SOL, PT, REDE v. União [2022] ADPF 708 (1 July 2022) (published 11 July 2022)
2022
South America Brazil
Climate Change United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights
Sanjay Chandrakant Keluskar v. State of Maharashtra & Ors., Orig. Application No. 23/2022 (WZ) (National Green Tribunal, Western Zone Bench, Pune) (30 May 2022)
2022
South Asia India
Mining Sand, gravel and aggregate mining
H.P. Ranjanna v. Union of India & Ors., Appeal No. 54/2018 (National Green Tribunal, Principle Bench New Delhi) (30 July 2021)
2021
South Asia India
Wetlands

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