: 1. Introduction During the first term of the European Commission in September 2023, President von der Leyen asked Mario Draghi, the former President of the European Central Bank, to prepare a report on the future of European competitiveness. The aim was to determine how the EU could respond swiftly to a changing world and ensure sustainable growth. Draghi produced the report on 9 September 2024.
: In 2019, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights claimed that “[t]he world has never seen a threat to human rights of this scope” as that posed by climate change. Awareness of this issue is growing, which is why we see more and more cases where the emergency of the climate change crisis is being brought before the Courts. Climate-related lawsuits are multiplying around the