Taking Lliuya v. RWE as a starting point, the present contribution analyses the climate change litigation from a private international law perspective. In particular, it investigates which law applies to tortious actions brought against large polluters, such as the Global Carbon Majors, in front of courts of EU Member States. Because of the material and temporal scope of application of the Rome II Regulation, it is argued that cases relating to damage to the environment and to damage to individuals caused by continuous emissions which started before 11 January 2009 fall outside the scope of application of the Regulation. For both cases residual role is vested upon national conflict of law rules, which national legislators should align to their goals to combat climate change.
Partendo dal caso Lliuya c. RWE, il contributo indaga la climate change litigation da un punto di vista internazionalprivatistico. In particolare, esso si interroga sul diritto applicabile alle azioni aquiliane avanzate contro i grandi inquinatori, quali i Global Carbon Majors, dinanzi ai tribunali degli Stati Membri dell’Unione europea. Per effetto dei limiti al suo ambito di applicazione materiale e temporale, il regolamento Roma II non risulta applicabile né alle ipotesi di danno ambientale in quanto tale né alle ipotesi di danno subito da individui per effetto di emissioni di gas ad effetto serra continuamente realizzate da prima dell’11 gennaio 2009. Per entrambe le ipotesi, sopperiscono le norme di conflitto di diritto comune, che i legislatori nazionali dovrebbero allineare ai loro obiettivi di lotta al cambiamento climatico.
Benini, C., Sui giudizi di responsabilità civile intentati contro i c.d. global carbon majors: riflessioni internazionalprivatistiche amargine della climate change litigation, <<JUS>>, 2024; (2): 183-209. [doi:10.26350/18277942_000175] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/279956]
Sui giudizi di responsabilità civile intentati contro i c.d. global carbon majors: riflessioni internazionalprivatistiche a margine della climate change litigation
Benini, Caterina
2024
Abstract
Taking Lliuya v. RWE as a starting point, the present contribution analyses the climate change litigation from a private international law perspective. In particular, it investigates which law applies to tortious actions brought against large polluters, such as the Global Carbon Majors, in front of courts of EU Member States. Because of the material and temporal scope of application of the Rome II Regulation, it is argued that cases relating to damage to the environment and to damage to individuals caused by continuous emissions which started before 11 January 2009 fall outside the scope of application of the Regulation. For both cases residual role is vested upon national conflict of law rules, which national legislators should align to their goals to combat climate change.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.