Human Rights Justification Climate Claims Visual Tool
HRJust Climate Claims brings together research outputs, event materials, datasets, and methodological resources developed within the HRJust project. Explore the latest webinars, conference activities, analytical tools, and public documentation supporting the study of climate litigation and human rights justification.
Discover the HRJUST Digital Tools Booklet
This booklet presents the two flagship digital outputs of the HRJust project: the Intersect Observatory and the Climate Claims Visual Tool. It offers a concise entry point to the project’s interactive ecosystem, showing how users can explore human rights justifications, event materials, observatories, and climate litigation data through accessible visual interfaces.
Intersect Observatory
A first-of-its-kind platform designed to monitor how states use human rights justifications across climate change, Covid-19, migration, and related fields, through a gender and intersectionality lens.
Climate Claims Visual Tool
An open-access case law database that lets users explore climate litigation through human rights arguments, state justifications, and civil society engagement patterns.
Bridging Research and Society: Reflections on Human Rights and Civil Society Engagement
This online conference marked the closing milestone of the HRJust-Intersect Observatory, an innovative Horizon Europe initiative that monitored how human rights justifications are used to respond to intersecting global challenges such as climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and migration.
By bringing together researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and civil society actors, the event demonstrated how the Observatory’s “living lab” approach translated research into accessible outputs — including policy papers, video blogs and seminars — grounded in real-world needs and intersectional perspectives.
The conference also highlighted how continuous dialogue with civil society enhanced transparency, accountability and inclusive governance, and how this co-created knowledge supported evidence-based human rights practices across Europe and beyond.
Safeguarding Climate Policy in Third Party Funded Investment Arbitration Through Legal Solidarity Mechanisms: The Potential Role of the Forthcoming UNCITRAL’s Advisory Centre
This article examines how the forthcoming UNCITRAL Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution (ACIIR) could assist states — especially developing countries — in defending climate policies against investor claims supported by third-party funding.
It highlights how third-party funded investor-State dispute settlement may create systemic imbalances and contribute to a “regulatory chill”, discouraging states from adopting ambitious climate measures for fear of costly arbitration.
The publication argues that the ACIIR could serve as a mechanism of legal solidarity by providing technical assistance, procedural guidance, legal representation, and training tailored to climate-related disputes, thereby strengthening the protection of public interests in international investment law.
