Abstract
The essay is aimed at verifying whether and in what terms - also considering the recent reform of the articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution - the qualification of the right to an intact and healthy environment as a fundamental right can be envisaged from a theoretical perspective and, above all, whether this has a concrete consequential scope from the perspective of the ecological transition. In this context, the author especially examines the absence of a clear system of legal standing in the environmental protection field, suggesting the overcoming of the current centralized legal standing regime. In this perspective – and through the enhancement of the horizontal subsidiarity principle and the vicinitas criterion in an axiological and not merely physical sense – the essay outlines a new classification of environmental interests, from interests with no titular to common interests, and the related configuration of a meta-individual fundamental right to environmental protection, consequently extending even to the individuals the environmental legal standing.

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