{"title":"The German Federal Constitutional Court's Decision on the Climate Change Act","authors":"R. Bodle, S. Sina","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/1/5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"1 The fundamental right to life and physical integrity in the constitution (Article 2 (2), first sentence) also includes a duty of the state to actively protect life and health from the dangers of climate change. This is not a fundamental right of future generations, but of persons alive now and during their lifetime. However, the state has a wide margin of discretion, which the Climate Change Act does not overstep.","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"318 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/1/5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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1 The fundamental right to life and physical integrity in the constitution (Article 2 (2), first sentence) also includes a duty of the state to actively protect life and health from the dangers of climate change. This is not a fundamental right of future generations, but of persons alive now and during their lifetime. However, the state has a wide margin of discretion, which the Climate Change Act does not overstep.