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Sui giudizi di responsabilità civile intentati contro i c.d. global carbon majors: riflessioni internazionalprivatistiche a margine della climate chan
30.06.2024

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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.

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