This article shows that the experience accrued by the Chilean Supreme Court in lawsuits on tort and environ-mental liability, should allow it to address the ethical-environmental and legal issues that global warming implies, either by preventing harm through the imposition on the major emitters of greenhouse gases, including the State, of the duty to reduce emissions rapidly and significantly, or by demanding and enforcing the obligation to adapt to climate change through the attribution of tort liability or environmental liability.
del Río, CB; Bellolio, FC
Litigation for damages and contribution of the chilean courts to the ethical-environmental challenges posed by climate change
Acta Bioethica