nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210704-135842-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210704s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210704-135842-0 doi eng 342 23 de Arriba-Sellier, Nathan Author aut The Grande Synthe Saga Continues A Pyrrhic victory for climate litigation? de Arriba-Sellier, Nathan Verfassungsblog 2021-07-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier France’s highest administrative court ruled that the French government had failed to take sufficient action to mitigate climate change and ordered it to take additional measures to redress that failure. The Grande Synthe II decision of 1 July 2021 follows the findings by the Conseil d’État in a previous decision that France’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets constitute legal obligations that are enforceable against the state. However, how, and when to redress France’s failure have been, to a broad extent, left to the discretion of the government. This all but ensures the Grande Synthe saga to continue. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 climate change climate change litigation climate litigation Conseil d'Etat Grande Synthe Paris Agreement Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-grande-synthe-saga-continues/ raw object