The European Court of Human Rights stands before what may be its greatest challenge: addressing current and impending human rights violations stemming from climate change. As the first climate cases trickle into the Court’s docket, and speculation about the Court’s response grows, many questions remain to be answered. Perhaps the matter of greatest uncertainty relates to the type and degree of redress that the Court can offer in this context. This article argues that the Court’s often deferential, inconsistent and unreasoned remedial practice is in urgent need of overhaul. It studies the Court’s remedial practice in environmental cases to draw conclusions about the Court’s existing approach to remedies and its self-perception in this context, i.e. its own understanding of the possibilities and limitations of its role. From this, it extrapolates the remedial approaches that could potentially be taken in climate cases, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each one.

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冒险，一无所获？——欧洲人权法院之前的补救措施及其对气候变化案件的潜力

欧洲人权法院面临着可能是其最大的挑战：解决气候变化引起的当前和即将发生的侵犯人权行为。随着第一批气候案件进入法院的案卷，以及对法院回应的猜测不断增加，许多问题仍有待回答。也许最大的不确定性与法院在这种情况下可以提供的补救类型和程度有关。本文认为，法院通常恭顺、前后不一致和不合理的补救做法迫切需要彻底改革。它研究了法院在环境案件中的补救实践，以得出关于法院现有补救方法及其在此背景下的自我认知的结论，即其自身对其作用的可能性和局限性的理解。由此，