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

我们的环境正处于危险之中。我们需要与气候灾难作斗争。在气候诉讼中，这样的要求被提交给法院。这三个坐标都值得商榷：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优先地位下主张保护环境的组织实际上重新考虑了集体主义，瑞士妇女气候-老年人组织(Klima Seniorinnen)和玛丽亚·汗/巴基斯坦提出了针对性别的要求。然而，受影响的人被赋予了相当狭隘的法律主体性，个人通过他们的法律行为超越了法律主体性，从而修改了法律本身。在此过程中，也因为与环境组织的合作，环境法面临着基于人权的自我变革的压力，类似于我们在第一阶段研究的欧洲边境庇护冲突带来的变化。与庇护权相比，气候诉讼面临着更强大的变革和毅力。我们感兴趣的是，这种冲突的司法加剧如何为一个共同分享和性别公正的世界开辟了新的视角。我们通过三个工作层面的话语分析来探讨这一主题：“概念储存库”致力于法律本身和法律文献，以研究环境法的性别层面的机制及其与作为环境组织和公共利益的集体的互动。然后，《气候诉讼谈判》研究在第一阶段研究的基础上，将法律逻辑和社会条件的谈判确定为维护法院霸权的必要策略，我们现在从欧洲、南美和南亚的裁决中分析这一点。最后，“动员气候保护法”的三个案例研究收集了“Klimaseniorinnen”、Maria Khan/巴基斯坦和Lliuya/RWE的战略诉讼的初步数据。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架起桥梁而闻名。因此，这些研究允许进行对比和跨部门的区分。通过这项研究，我们将洞察从(法律)性别研究转移到环境法，在社会和内部法律逻辑的界面上推进法律话语研究，并强调超越技术解决方案的首要地位的环境法视角，以供讨论。

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.