The Court seems to have spelled out a clear way forward for climate cases - and confirmed that climate change is very much an ECHR issue,” she writes from Strasbourg, while live-tweeting the hearing on X.
The Court seems to have spelled out a clear way forward for climate cases - and confirmed that climate change is very much an ECHR issue,” she writes from Strasbourg, while live-tweeting the hearing on X.
Unfortunately, the Portuguese suit was unsuccessful, because it was “too far reaching” according to ECHR, the can’t sue more than their own country and haven’t gone through their own country’s legal system before sueing in front of the ECHR.
Only the swiss seniors’ suit (try saying that three times as fast as you can lol) was successful.
There’s also German national-level decisions. First it was the constitutional court saying “legislature must enact stricter laws”, then it was the BGH saying “yep the government is in breach of those laws”. Then, crickets. Or, well, I haven’t kept up I’d be surprised if citizens don’t have standing before the ECHR when it comes to rule of law breaches.
The protests last year where activists glued themselves to roads were about this exact thing. The message was “act according to the law”. They were branded terrorists by media and politicians.