The paper deals with the growing judicial trend known as ‘private climate change litigation’ (or horizontal climate change litigation), where individuals and/or environmental organizations bring actions against Carbon Majors in order to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. The comment provides for a critical appraisal over the applicability of Article 7 of EC Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II) to climate actions instituted before courts of EU Member States and points out the unsuitability of the locus commissi delicti as connecting factor aimed at determining the law applicable to climate damage.
University of Siena, Italy
Chapter Title
Il contenzioso climatico orizzontale: questioni internazionalprivatistiche sulla legge applicabile
Authors
Ornella Feraci
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1090-4.08
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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Book Title
Il contenzioso climatico nazionale e internazionale: questioni aperte e nuove tendenze
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno tenutosi presso il Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi di Siena l'11 novembre 2024
Editors
Ornella Feraci
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
166
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1090-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1089-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1090-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-1091-1
Series Title
Strumenti del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza di Siena
Series ISSN
3035-5656
Series E-ISSN
3035-5842