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'A very bureaucratic approach to the most existential threat of the century': Neubauer and the German climate case three years on

'A very bureaucratic approach to the most existential threat of the century': Neubauer and the German climate case three years on

A spate of constitutional complaints against the German government’s handling of the climate crisis were launched following Urgenda’s success in the Netherlands. But as is often the case with strategic litigation, the landmark judgment delivered in 2021 has had a mixture of victories, failures and unintended consequences. To
Isabella Kaminski