Claiming a Common World? Gender in Environmental Law and Climate Litigation

我们的环境处于危险之中。我们需要与气候灾难作斗争。这些要求在气候诉讼中被提交给法院。这使得所有三个FOR坐标都成为问题：利用性别研究的知识，我们能够识别人类，人类污染者和他的环境。在抽象的共同利益和技术解决方案的首要地位下，追求保护环境的组织实际上重新考虑了集体，瑞士妇女“气候老年人”（KlimaSeniorinnen）和巴基斯坦的玛丽亚·汗（Maria Khan）提出了具体的性别要求。然而，受影响的人被赋予了相当狭隘的法律主体性，个人通过其法律行为超越了这种主体性，从而修改了法律本身。在此过程中，也因为与环保组织的合作，环境法在人权的压力下进行了转型，类似于我们在第一阶段研究的欧洲边境庇护冲突所带来的变化，与庇护权相比，气候诉讼面临着更强大的转型力量和毅力。我们感兴趣的是，冲突在法律上的加剧如何为一个共有的和性别公正的世界开辟新的视角。我们通过三个工作层面的话语分析来探讨这一主题：“概念库”致力于法律本身和法律文献，研究环境法的机制，包括其性别维度及其与作为环境组织和共同利益的集体的相互作用。然后，“谈判气候诉讼”的研究是在第一阶段研究的基础上进行的，在第一阶段中，我们确定了法律逻辑和社会条件的谈判是维持法院霸权权威的必要策略，我们现在对欧洲、南美和南亚的裁决进行了分析。最后，“动员气候保护法”这三个案例研究收集了“Klimaseniorinnen”、Maria Khan / Pakistan和Lliuya / RWE的战略诉讼的原始数据。前两个案例明确基于性别和人权，而第三个案例使用民法，并以在全球南北之间建立桥梁而闻名。因此，研究允许对比和交叉分化。通过这项研究，我们将（法律）性别研究的见解转移到环境法中，在社会和内部法律逻辑的界面上推进法律话语研究，并突出环境法视角超越技术解决方案的首要地位。

Our environment is in danger. We need to fight the climate catastrophe. Such demands are brought to courts in climate litigation. This calls all three FOR coordinates into in question: Using knowledge from gender studies, we are able to identify Anthropos, the human polluter, and his environment. Organizations that pursue claims to protect the environment, under the primacy of an abstract common good and technical solutions, in fact reconsider collectivities, with the Swiss women ‘climate-seniors’ (KlimaSeniorinnen) and Maria Khan / Pakistan formulating gender-specific demands. However, those affected are granted legal subjectivity rather narrowly defined, which individuals surpass with their legal action, thus modify the law itself. Along the way, and also because of cooperating with environmental organizations, environmental law gets under human rights-based pressure to transform itself, similar to the changes effectuated by the asylum conflicts at the European borders we studies in Phase I. Compared to the right of asylum, climate litigation faces even stronger forces of transformation as well as perseverance. We are interested in how this juridical intensification of conflict opens up new perspectives on a commonly shared and gender just world.We pursue this topic through discourse analysis on three working levels: The "Reservoirs of Notions" is devoted to the laws themselves and legal literature, to study the mechanisms of environmental law regarding its gender dimensions and its interaction with collectivities, both as environmental organizations and the common good. Then, the study "Negotiating Climate Litigation" follows up on research of Phase I, in which we identified the negotiation of legal logic and social conditions as a necessary strategy to maintain the courts´ hegemonic authority, which we now analyze in rulings from Europe, South America and South Asia. Finally, the three case studies "Mobilizing Climate Protection Law" collect primary data on strategic litigation by the “Klimaseniorinnen”, Maria Khan / Pakistan and Lliuya / RWE. The first two cases are explicitly based on gender and human rights, while the third case uses civil law and is known for building bridges between the global north and south. As such, the studies allow for contrasting and intersectional differentiation. With this research, we transfer insights from (legal) gender studies to environmental law, advance legal discourse research at the interface of society and internal legal logic, and highlight environmental law perspectives beyond the primacy of technical solutions, to be discussed.