Intro
Contents
1 Setting the Scene: From the Environment as an Object To Be Protected Towards an Environmental Right(s)-Based Approach-International and EU Law Perspectives
1.1 The Environment as an Object To Be Protected in International Environmental Law
1.1.1 The Accent on the Environment's Ability to Meet Present and Future Needs
1.2 International Human Rights Law and the Protection of the Environment as a Value of General Interest
1.3 The Environment as an Object to be Protected in European Union Law

1.3.1 The Environment as an Object to be Protected Under EU Action Programmes
1.3.2 EU Primary Law and the Integration of Environmental Protection: Criteria for Compliance with a High Level of Protection ...
1.3.3 ... But Tempered
1.3.4 EU as a Global Actor for Climate Justice
1.4 A Progressive Shift Towards an Environmental Right(s)-Based Approach
1.4.1 Environmental Deprivation Undermining Existing Human Rights: Environment-Related Rights
1.4.2 Emerging Global Recognition of a Right to a Healthy Environment

1.4.3 Regional Recognition of a Right to a Healthy Environment Facilitated through Conventional Undertakings
1.4.4 More Difficult Recognition at European Level: The Different Techniques of the European Court of Human Rights
1.4.5 Attempts by the European Court of Justice
1.4.6 Beyond Human Rights: Possibilities for Recognizing Nature's Rights Under EU Law?
1.5 The Environment and Children: An Emerging Issue?
1.6 Research Aims: A Suitable Group-Specific Right to the Environment?
References

2 The Convention on the Rights of the Child as a Basis for Environment-Related Children's Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child's Contribution to Their Expansion
2.1 Environment-Related Rights Protecting Children in the Convention on the Rights of the Child
2.2 Child: A Definition and Prospects of Interpretation Regarding the Lacunae
2.3 The Environment as an Explicit Determinant of Health (Article 24 CRC)
2.3.1 Article 24 CRC in Practice-From Phase One: Raising Awareness of Environmental Concerns and the Need for International Cooperation

2.3.2 To Phase Two: Procedural Prevention and Substantive Regulatory Due Diligence
2.3.3 To Phase Three: Environmental Rights for Children
2.3.4 To Phase Four: Climate Change Impacts Becoming Mainstreamed in Concluding Observations
2.3.5 Climate-Related Petitions by Children: Sacchi et al.
2.4 The Environment as a Value in Education (Article 29 CRC)
2.5 The Environment as a Factor Contributing to an Adequate Standard of Living (Article 27 CRC)
2.6 The Environmental Dimension of the Right to Rest, Leisure and Play (Article 31 CRC)