Human rights violated by Switzerland inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case
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Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves

Cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13044046

In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such rulings by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent.

The court’s top bench ruled that Switzerland had violated rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life, but threw out a French mayor’s case against France and that of a group of young Portuguese people against 32 European countries.