Cases mentioned

• Decision no. 247/74, Constitutional Court [1974], decision no. 184/86, Constitutional Court [1986], (applicability of civil liability to harms related to the health and environment).
• Decision no. 641/1897, Constitutional Court [1987], (possibility to order preventive and punitive remedies, in case of environmental harm under civil liability norm)

For more country specific context and relevant national climate change law see: https://climate-laws.org/geographies/italy   

This country report has been produced by Carlotta Garofalo, C2LI Research Assistant, Humzah Khan, C2LI Senior Research Assistant and Lydia Omuko-Jung, C2LI Legal Analyst. The summary is based on Barbara Pozzo, “The Italian path to climate change: nothing new under the sun” in F. Sindico and M. Moise Mbengue, Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Springer, 2021.