Post by Loup Keravel

Can climate inaction be prosecuted as a violation of international law? That is the position I defended at Change the World Academy, representing Malawi in the GA-LEGAL committee. Climate change is already a human rights issue: access to water, food, health. The harm is not theoretical. It is measurable, and already unevenly distributed. The legal question is whether international law can assign responsibility for that harm. Can a state be held accountable not for what it does, but for what it knowingly fails to do? This is where the debate becomes structural. International law was designed to regulate actions. Climate change forces it to confront inaction. But even if accountability mechanisms evolve, the question remains: will legal responsibility be enough to change how risk is priced, and capital is allocated? If it does not, then nothing fundamentally changes. One room, many perspectives, no easy answers. Grateful to have shared this experience with you, Michele Gros