Chiara Macchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4413801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Macchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Macchi |
| SIGNATURE | MACCHI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3910-9340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anticipatory climate litigation
In the face of the climate crisis, civil society organisations and citizens are increasingly resorting to litigation to hold fossil fuel corporations accountable for their contribution to climate change. The 2021 landmark case Milieudefensie versus Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands was the first lawsuit in which a court ordered a carbon major to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Although the decision of the District Court was overturned in …
Corporate Responsibility and Deep Seabed Mining
The International Seabed Authority is under pressure from some states and companies to adopt the regulations that would allow deep seabed mining (DSM) to commence. While presented by its supporters as necessary to procure the minerals and metals needed for energy transition, DSM presents serious risks for the marine environments and human rights whose extent is still insufficiently understood. This article focuses on whether, should DSM be allowe…
Conceptualizing just transition litigation
The Climate Change Dimension of Business and Human Rights
This article makes the case for a ‘holistic’ approach to human rights due diligence, arguing that such a standard must be interpreted in the light of mutually reinforcing principles of environmental law, climate law and human rights law. Through a review of emerging climate change-related litigation, it shows how a concept of ‘climate due diligence’ is gradually consolidating. Building on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Huma…
Right to Water and the Threat of Business
This article assesses the contribution of the treaty bodies monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (respectively, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or CESCR, and of the Human Rights Committee, or CCPR) to the definition of the human right to water and of the related state duty to protect it from the harmful…
Conceptualizing just transition litigation
The Climate Change Dimension of Business and Human Rights
This article makes the case for a ‘holistic’ approach to human rights due diligence, arguing that such a standard must be interpreted in the light of mutually reinforcing principles of environmental law, climate law and human rights law. Through a review of emerging climate change-related litigation, it shows how a concept of ‘climate due diligence’ is gradually consolidating. Building on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Huma…
Right to Water and the Threat of Business
This article assesses the contribution of the treaty bodies monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (respectively, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or CESCR, and of the Human Rights Committee, or CCPR) to the definition of the human right to water and of the related state duty to protect it from the harmful…
The Climate Change Dimension of Business and Human Rights
This article makes the case for a ‘holistic’ approach to human rights due diligence, arguing that such a standard must be interpreted in the light of mutually reinforcing principles of environmental law, climate law and human rights law. Through a review of emerging climate change-related litigation, it shows how a concept of ‘climate due diligence’ is gradually consolidating. Building on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Huma…
Conceptualizing just transition litigation
Corporate Responsibility and Deep Seabed Mining
The International Seabed Authority is under pressure from some states and companies to adopt the regulations that would allow deep seabed mining (DSM) to commence. While presented by its supporters as necessary to procure the minerals and metals needed for energy transition, DSM presents serious risks for the marine environments and human rights whose extent is still insufficiently understood. This article focuses on whether, should DSM be allowe…
Anticipatory climate litigation
In the face of the climate crisis, civil society organisations and citizens are increasingly resorting to litigation to hold fossil fuel corporations accountable for their contribution to climate change. The 2021 landmark case Milieudefensie versus Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands was the first lawsuit in which a court ordered a carbon major to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Although the decision of the District Court was overturned in …
Environmental law and policy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Corporate Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (2 works)