The Committee notes in the General Comment that “[t]he efforts of children to draw attention to these environmental crises creat the motivation and were the momentum behind the present general comment” (para 2). There is no doubt, however, that one particular effort play a key role; namely, the complaints brought to the Committee by Chiara Sacchi and 15 other child complainants against five states in September 2019. As discuss previously on this blog-site.

The complaints were deem inadmissible

The Committee us its decision to make a series of findings. In addition to specifying that the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) gives rise to extra-territorial obligations to address climate change and outlining whatsapp number list the test for jurisdiction that it would use in the context of environmental harm, the Committee also engag with causality and found that the complainants had prima facie establish that they had personally experienc a real and significant harm such as to justify their victim status.

While the Sacchi litigation did not result

Positive outcome in terms of a legal finding of state wrongdoing, the at first sight the octagonal building strikes complaints (and perhaps to some degree the disappoint response on the part of some to the Committee’s decision) drove home the message that the Committee ne to address the environment as a matter of urgency. Inde, the impact of Sacchi was acknowlg by the The committee’s interest Chair of the Committee in an interview with the Guardian publish on the day that the General Comment came out: “[Sacchi] certainly china numbers galvanis this general comment. The case made us so aware of how children were feeling about these issues, how strongly they were fighting to get their views across.