nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210510-181511-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210510s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210510-181511-0 doi eng 342 23 Eckes, Christina Author aut Separation of Powers in Climate Cases Comparing cases in Germany and the Netherlands Eckes, Christina Verfassungsblog 2021-05-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 29 April 2021, the Bundesverfassungsgericht published its decision that the Federal Climate Change Act of 12 December 2019, establishing national climate targets and annual emission amounts allowed until 2030, violates fundamental rights. Do the judges in such a case undermine separation of powers as a time-honoured achievement of modern constitutional democracies in order to force the political branches to take urgently necessary actions? No. By allocating different functions to the three branches, executive, legislature, and judiciary, separation of powers aims to ensure that the tension between law and majoritarian politics is perpetuated and that neither law nor politics dominates the other. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 BVerfG climate cases climate change litigation Klimaschutz Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/separation-of-powers-in-climate-cases/ raw object