Children and Youth in Strategic Climate Litigation: Advancing Rights through Legal Argument and Legal Mobilization

Abstract Children and young people constitute more than one quarter of all plaintiffs in rights-based strategic climate litigation cases filed globally up to 2021. This article examines the implications this development for children's environmental rights inside outside courtroom, relying on analysis case documents, media coverage, broader literature rights. The finds that children are well placed make powerful arguments intergenerational justice. Conversely, address their current-day grievances under-utilized. More consistent inclusion these types claim could strengthen rights, clarifying enforcing legal obligations towards context crisis as it unfolds. involvement litigation, moreover, can advance critical role demographic stakeholder solutions. However, participation also raises ethical practical dilemmas, which currently poorly understood only haphazardly addressed.