Cases mentioned

• Family Farmers and Greenpeace Germany v. Germany, VG Berlin, Decision of 31 October 2019
• BVerfG, 2021 / BVerfG, Order of First Senate 24 March 2021 – 1 BvR 2656/18 -, para 1-270
• BVerfG, 2007 / BVerfG, Order of the First Senate, 13 March 2007 – 1 BvF 1/05 -, para . 1-112
• BVerfG, 2010 / BVerfG, Judgment of the First Senate of 24 November 2010 – 1 BvF 2/05 -, paras. 1-316
• CJEU, 2017 / CJEU, Decision of 20 December 2017, C-664/15

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

This country report has been produced by Lea Busch, Research Assistant, Catherine Hall, C2LI Senior Research Assistant and Lennart Wegener, C2LI Legal Analyst, in collaboration with Prof. Dirk Hanschel (C2LI National Rapporteur Germany). The summary is based on Dirk Hanschel, “Climate Change and the Individual” in M. Schmidt-Kessel, German National Reports on the 20th International Congress of Comparative Law, Mohr Siebeck, 2018.