On the judicial pathway of climate change governance
论气候变化治理的司法路径

摘要

气候变化是当今世界面临的最严峻挑战之一，其引发的极端天气事件、海平面上升、生态系统破坏等问题，对全球的经济、社会、环境和人类健康构成了巨大威胁。随着全球工业化进程的加速和人类活动对自然资源的高强度开发，温室气体排放持续增加，导致地球气候系统发生变化，气候变化已成为不容忽视的现实。目前我国气候变化的应对路径仍然处于探索阶段，聚焦于气候变化这一全球性挑战，深入探讨中国应对气候变化的路径，通过分析了国外气候变化的实践概况，映射出本国的气候变化诉讼基础权利空缺，气候变化应对类案件界定模糊，司法能动性发挥阻碍以及预防性司法不足等缺陷并提出相应的改善措施。

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most severe challenges facing the world today. Extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and ecosystem destruction caused by climate change pose significant threats to the global economy, society, environment, and human health. With the acceleration of global industrialization and the intensive exploitation of natural resources by human activities, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, leading to changes in the Earth's climate system. Climate change has become an undeniable reality. Currently, China's approach to addressing climate change is still in the exploratory stage. Focusing on this global challenge, this paper delves into the judicial pathways for addressing climate change in China. By analyzing the practical experiences of foreign climate change litigation, it highlights the shortcomings in China's current system, including the lack of foundational rights for climate change litigation, ambiguous definitions of climate-related cases, obstacles to judicial activism, and insufficient preventive justice. Corresponding improvement measures are proposed to address these issues.