Abstract This article seeks to critically analyse salient aspects of environmental protection through international litigation under the American Convention on Human Rights. It examines and places relevant recent developments in the practice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights within broader trends in the practice of states and treaty organs of both universal and regional human rights systems equally dealing with issues at the intersection of international human rights law and environmental protection. In particular, it aims to take stock of Inter-American human rights-based environmental litigation by identifying opportunities and challenges presented by the aforementioned developments, both in conceptual and strategic terms. In this vein, it argues that, insofar as directness of environmental rights’ justiciability may prove ultimately inconsequential to state responsibility findings for omission to prevent private interference with environment-related human rights, the weaknesses of the Court’s current majority’s position should not pose an unsurmountable obstacle to Inter-American environmental litigation.

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通过国际人权诉讼保护环境：评估美洲体系中的挑战和机遇

摘要 本文旨在通过美国人权公约下的国际诉讼，批判性地分析环境保护的重要方面。它审查了美洲人权法院实践中的相关最新发展，并将其置于普遍和区域人权体系的国家和条约机构的实践中的更广泛趋势中，平等地处理国际人权法交叉领域的问题和环境保护。特别是，它旨在通过识别上述发展带来的机遇和挑战，在概念和战略方面评估美洲基于人权的环境诉讼。在这方面，它认为，