Youth Climate Justice
Child-friendly justice for the climate justice: Post-paternalism judgements, litigation and participation.
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Youth Climate Justice - Child-friendly justice for the climate crisis: Post-paternalist judgments, litigation and participation.
This 5-year project is the first large-scale transnational examination of youth justice in the climate crisis. The project will examine how child-friendly justice and children's rights scholarship are being transformed by youth climate activism.
The project aims to work beyond contemporary paternalistic approaches to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This project will look at how youth climate action is affecting international human rights law; and whether justice systems are child-friendly.
The opinions and experiences of children will be a key focus of the project. The project aims to ensure that children’s voices are heard.
The Youth Climate Justice project is partnered with both the School of Law and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at UCC and is funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant 2022.
* Photo credit - Ireland's Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, by Fabian Boros
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