The Urgenda Climate Case: Reexamining its Legal Rationale, Debates and Implications Four Years Later

Autores/as

  • Riccardo Perona Profesor Asociado, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, y miembro del grupo de investigación Filosofía del Derecho, Derecho Internacional y Problemas Jurídicos Contemporáneos, Universidad de Cartagena (Colombia). Doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas, Universidad de Pisa (Italia). Director, Instituto Jurídico Internacional de Turín “IgiTo” (Italia). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-3554
  • Josefina Del Carmen Quintero-Lyons Doctora en Empleo, Relaciones Laborales y Diálogo Social en Europa. Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha. Máster en Teorías Críticas del Derecho y la Democracia En Iberoamérica. Democracia E Integración Regional. Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. Especialista en Instituciones Jurídico- Laborales. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Directora del Grupo de Investigación de Derecho del Trabajo y Seguridad Social. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3119-4886
  • Fernando Luna-Salas Profesor investigador del Dpto. de Derecho Procesal y Probatorio de la Universidad de Cartagena. Magíster en Derecho de la Universidad de Cartagena y Especialista en Derecho Procesal de la Universidad Libre. Doctorando en Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Criminológicas de la Universidad de Valencia-España. Conjuez de la Sala Especializada Civil-Familia del Tribunal Superior del Distrito Judicial de Cartagena- Bolívar, director del grupo y del semillero de investigación Ciencia y Proceso y codirector del grupo de investigación Derecho Privado, Procesal y Probatorio. Miembro del Instituto Colombiano de Derecho Procesal (ICDP). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4574-6335

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18041/2382-3240/saber.2024v19n1.11358

Palabras clave:

Caso Urgenda, razonamiento jurídico, mitigación del cambio climático, pruebas científicas

Resumen

Este artículo analiza la fundamentación jurídica de las decisiones clave en el caso Urgenda sobre el clima, abordando el fallo inicial, el fallo de segunda instancia y la sentencia de la Corte Suprema de los Países Bajos, y explorando los aspectos fundamentales que desencadenaron debates. Al arrojar luz sobre estas dinámicas, algunos años después de la sentencia final, el estudio tiene como objetivo proporcionar ideas relevantes para las actuales discusiones sobre estrategias de mitigación del cambio climático, obligaciones jurídicas y la necesidad de enfoques multidimensionales.

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12-02-2024 — Actualizado el 11-02-2025

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The Urgenda Climate Case: Reexamining its Legal Rationale, Debates and Implications Four Years Later. (2025). Saber, Ciencia Y Libertad, 19(1), 117-139. https://doi.org/10.18041/2382-3240/saber.2024v19n1.11358 (Original work published 2024)

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