COP27 Side-Event: „A legal Perspective on Climate Change – Legal means as a game changer in climate politics?“

Through the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2021 the German legislature is obliged to set a national path for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees if possible. Thus, the law, provides necessary framework conditions, Germany will still miss its climate targets. The panel discusses legal means as a game changer to push foward more ambitious climate action on policy level, using the examples of legsilative approaches as well as climate litigation.