Sungkyunkwan University Research Team Introduces Korean Climate Justice Ruling to the International Community

Sungkyunkwan University announced on the 12th that a paper by the research team led by Professor Lee Gil-won of the School of Law analyzed the Constitutional Court's climate justice ruling from the perspective of international environmental law, and was published in the international academic journal 'Nature Human Behaviour'.

The research team evaluated that the Constitutional Court's decision, the first in Asia, to rule certain climate-related legal provisions unconstitutional is a precedent that strengthens intergenerational equity and democratic responsibility in responding to climate change.

The researchers stated, "This precedent goes beyond short-term policy-level climate responses and establishes a constitutional foundation for legally binding long-term climate goals."

The research team predicted that this ruling, which demonstrated that national climate policies can be enforced according to legal principles, will promote similar legal responses internationally and lead to an expansion of global climate litigation.