Cambiamento climatico e diritti umani dinanzi al Comitato dei diritti del fanciullo

On 8 October 2021, the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted a very important decision in the Sacchi et al. v Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey case, filed in 2019 by 16 young people from 12 countries, who had accused the aforementioned states of violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child by causing and perpetuating the climate crisis. Although the Committee declared the complaint inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies, the decision contains interesting statements in particular with regard to the notion of extraterritorial jurisdiction, which make the ruling a precious tool in the fight against climate change through so-called climate justice and may have significant repercussions with respect both to future petitions before the CRC Committee and to cases already pending before other international bodies or domestic courts.