Development Motivations and System Construction of Climate Change Administrative Public Interest Litigation in China
In the post-Paris Agreement era,climate justice has become an important path for coun-tries to address climate change.The construction of climate change administrative public interest li-tigation is to update and expand the environmental administrative public interest litigation at the in-stitutional level,and firstly enter into practice with three types of counts,namely,"decision-making error","access violation"and"supervisory negligence".In order to provide effective support,spe-cial rules should be designed within the scope of the administrative litigation system and taking into account the characteristics of the climate issue:giving social organizations the qualification to sue,implementing unified high-level jurisdiction and centralized cross-regional jurisdiction,strengthen-ing the review of abstract administrative acts,establishing the review rule of"significant risk"for the elements of seriousness and cover,adding"prohibited judgment",and exploring remedial mea-sures for climate change.
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