Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis

Maria Antonia Tigre is a global leader in climate change litigation and rights-based climate law. She is the Director for Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. Armando Rocha is a Professor of International Law, Law of the Sea, and Climate Change Law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a researcher at the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law.

• Foreword: Advisory Opinions from Icj, Itlos, And Iacthr: Expectations and Risks List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors1 The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis: an IntroductionMaria Antonia Tigre and Armando Rocha,Section 1: Advisory Opinions as Instruments of Climate Governance2 Advisory Opinions and the Development of International Law: an Opportunity for Climate Change Law?Rita Guerreiro Teixeira and Patrícia Galvão Teles3 The Climate-Related Obligations under the UNCLOS, the ACHR, and International Law in GeneralAlice Ollino and Irini Papanicolopulu4 Jurisdictional Ingenuity in Pursuit of Promoting States’ Obligationsin the Context of the Climate EmergencyMelissa Stewart5 The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate CrisisThe Dialogue between the ICJ, the ITLOS, the IACtHR, and the AfCtHPRSusan Ann Samuel and Jorge Alejandro Carrillo Bañuelos6 An Advisory Opinion on Human Rights and Climate Change in the African Regional Human Rights SystemDina Lupin and Ruth NekuraSection 2: Voices and Participation in Advisory Opinion Proceedings7 Storytelling in the Advisory Proceedings on Climate ChangeAntoine De Spiegeleir8 Participation in Climate Change Advisory Proceedings: Bridging the Gap between the Judiciary and the International CommunityMiriam Cohen9 The Role of States in the Requests for Advisory OpinionsAustyn Campbell, Claire Robertson and Eran Sthoeger10 The Role of Civil Society in the Climate Change Advisory ProceedingsHarjeevan S. Narulla and Rohan A. Nanthakumar,Section 3: The Lasting Impact of Advisory Opinions11 The Downstream Impact of Advisory Opinions in the Case Law of Other International Bodies and Domestic LitigationLea Main-Klingst and Sophie Marjanac12 The Impact on Domestic Law of Climate Change-Related Advisory Opinions: the Experience of the IACtHR and the ITLOSGastón Medici-Colombo and Armando Rocha13 Finding the ‘Rosetta Stone’? Concluding Remarks on the Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate CrisisArmando Rocha and Maria Antonia TigreAppendix 1: Questions Posed in the Advisory Opinion RequestsAppendix 2: Table of International Instruments and National LegislationAppendix 3: Table of CasesIndex