La solidarietà intergenerazionale come Common Core del costituzionalismo ambientale europeo e la riforma della costituzione italiana

Moving from the link between ecosystem alteration and zoonotic diseases exposed by the pandemic, this chapter examines in a comparative perspective the 2022 reform that introduced environmental protection among the fundamental principles of the Italian Constitution. It contrasts "culturally oriented" environmental constitutionalisms, from the constitutional "silence" of the United States to counter-narratives from the Global South, such as the rights of Nature in Andean constitutionalism and the trusteeship model in South-East Asia. It then identifies intergenerational solidarity as the Common Core of European environmental constitutionalism and argues that, despite its limits, the reference to future generations marks a significant advance.