Transformative Climate Action and Individual Property Rights

Abstract

The talk focused on the relation between transformative climate action and individual property rights, in particular on tensions between the fundamental right to property and spatial planning law. The rule of law and the classical, liberal structure of legal systems guarantee fundamental rights for individuals, among other also the right to property, the freedom to carry on a business or the free movement of capital within the European Union, all of which might impede the efforts of environmental and climate protection policies. The talk discussed to which extent economic fundamental rights render climate actions impossible or harm its effects.