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Felix Ekardt Last Thursday, the German Constitutional Court released a groundbreaking verdict on climate change, freedom and human rights. Following the first of four adjudicated lawsuits (represented by the two authors), the court understands climate change as a twofold freedom challenge: climate change itself and climate policy can become highly relevant for human rights to freedom. And freedom rights are something to which future generations and people worldwide not only in Germany are entitled. Legislators must therefore organise the path to zero emissions which the court sees as required under constitutional and international law in a way that is as forward-looking and freedom-friendly as possible. In doing so, each generation must do its fair share if there is to be a timely shift to zero fossil fuels in sectors such as electricity, buildings, transport, cement, plastics and agriculture and to greatly-reduced animal husbandry. In any event, following the ruling the Paris-agre

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