nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210430-231520-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210430s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210430-231520-0 doi eng 342 23 Goldmann, Matthias Author aut Judges for Future The Climate Action Judgment as a Postcolonial Turn in Constitutional Law? Goldmann, Matthias Verfassungsblog 2021-04-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The judgment of 29 April 2021 quashing parts of the Climate Protection Act (CPA) has made history. Not only because the First Senate of the BVerfG put an end to deferring the reduction of greenhouse gasses to the future, or at least to the next government. But because this turn to the future came in the form of a turn to international law and institutions. It is precisely by relying on international law that the court overcomes the counter-majoritarian difficulty commonly tantalizing climate litigation and human rights law generally. The most astonishing fact is, however, that the court entirely avoids the tragic choice between supposedly undemocratic international commitments and the democratic legislature. I argue that it does so by approaching constitutional law in a decidedly postcolonial perspective. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Bundesverfassungsgericht climate change Klimaschutz Paris Agreement Postcolonial Studies Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/judges-for-future/ raw object