{"id":50525,"date":"2024-04-09T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=50525"},"modified":"2024-04-11T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:55:39","slug":"european-court-rules-climate-inaction-by-states-breaches-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/04\/09\/european-court-rules-climate-inaction-by-states-breaches-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"European court rules climate inaction by states breaches human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>European judges have ruled that Switzerland has breached the human rights of its citizens by not doing enough to cut national greenhouse gas emissions, in a decision with wide implications for state action on climate change. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a landmark <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng#%7B%22itemid%22:%5B%22001-233206%22%5D%7D\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">judgment<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> issued on Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights upheld a complaint brought by more than 2,000 older Swiss women, saying their <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">government had violated the right to respect for family and private life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It ruled that Article 8 of the ECHR, which refers to the right to a private and family life and home, &#8220;encompasses a right to effective protection by the State authorities from the serious adverse effects of climate change on lives, health, well-being and quality of life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Mahrer, co-president of the Swiss <span data-contrast=\"none\">KlimaSeniorinnen group <\/span>that brought the case, said the ruling is a &#8220;landmark in the struggle for a liveable climate for everyone&#8221; as &#8220;the ECHR has now confirmed that climate protection is a human right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is likely to encourage other campaign groups to bring cases against governments that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/about-us\/our-member-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parties to the ECHR<\/a>. This includes all European Union states, the United Kingdom, Norway, Turkey and some Central Asian states. A number of climate lawsuits had been adjourned at the court<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> pending decisions in this and two other cases ruled on this morning.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:280,&quot;335559739&quot;:280,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/04\/08\/forest-carbon-accounting-allows-guyana-to-stay-net-zero-while-pumping-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Forest carbon accounting<\/strong> allows Guyana to stay net zero while pumping oil<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Climate litigation is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/the-wave.net\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">growing trend around the world<\/span><\/a>,<span data-contrast=\"none\"> and courts have previously linked climate with human rights violations. But this is the first time an international court has ruled on whether climate change infringes human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johan Rockstr\u00f6m, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said heatwaves, droughts, floods and forest fires are already threatening human lives today, and will worsen as climate change intensifies, making it urgent for states to take action to reduce planet-warming emissions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Climate lawsuits can put pressure on governments to increase their climate policy efforts and thus advance diplomatic negotiations,&#8221; he said in a statement after the ruling.<\/p>\n<h3>Swiss seniors<\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, an association of older women, argued that those it represents are particularly vulnerable to climate change and presented scientific evidence showing that older people \u2013 particularly women \u2013 are more likely to die during heatwaves. They wanted the Swiss government to do more <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">to meet the tougher 1.5C warming goal it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/04\/22\/as-1-5c-overshoot-looms-a-high-level-commission-will-ask-what-next\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">signed up to in the Paris Agreement.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:280,&quot;335559739&quot;:280,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Swiss government had agreed that rising temperatures were harming people\u2019s health &#8211; but denied that the KlimaSeniorinnen should be treated as victims under the law and said the link between its actions and their suffering was \u201ctoo tenuous and remote\u201d.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:280,&quot;335559739&quot;:280,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It maintained that some of the claimants &#8211; several of whom were over the age of 80 and some of whom had died since the case was first filed &#8211; were unlikely to be alive by the time the global temperature rise breaches the 1.5C threshold.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:280,&quot;335559739&quot;:280,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50529\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50529\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09123723\/Swiss-activists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09123723\/Swiss-activists.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09123723\/Swiss-activists-252x168.jpg 252w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09123723\/Swiss-activists-506x337.jpg 506w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09123723\/Swiss-activists-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz <\/span>activists outside the courtroom in Strasbourg 9\/4\/24 (Photo: Global Legal Action Network)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">On Tuesday, the 17-judge panel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ECHR_CEDH\/status\/1777630158419087746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a> that there were critical gaps in Switzerland\u2019s attempt to put a domestic climate regulation framework in place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It said Swiss authorities had failed to quantify how they would cut national greenhouse gas emissions, through a carbon budget or otherwise, and had failed to meet past emission reduction targets.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">While recognising that states have wide discretion in setting their own laws and developing measures to cut national emissions, the court said Swiss authorities had not acted quickly or decisively enough.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The court did not say what Switzerland should do to solve the problem, leaving it to the Council of Europe\u2019s <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Committee of Ministers to come up with a solution.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The judgment, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/03\/29\/european-court-hears-landmark-lawsuits-that-could-shape-climate-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follows hearings<\/a> last year, cannot be appealed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">S\u00e9bastien Duyck, human rights and climate campaign manager for the Center for International Environmental Law,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"none\">said the decision has implications \u201cway beyond Switzerland\u201d because all members of the Council of Europe have the same human rights obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Outside of Europe, he said it would also influence how other courts interpret the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HumanRights?src=hashtag_click\"><span data-contrast=\"none\"> human rights <\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">obligations of states on climate action.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:440,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Two failures<\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The court in Strasbourg ruled on two other climate-related lawsuits on the same day.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:440,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">One, brought by former French mayor and current member of the European Parliament Damien Car\u00eame against the government of France, was deemed inadmissible because he no longer lives in France and could not show that he was a victim.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50530\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50530\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09124243\/Sofia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09124243\/Sofia.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09124243\/Sofia-252x168.jpg 252w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09124243\/Sofia-506x337.jpg 506w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/04\/09124243\/Sofia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">19-year old Portugese applicant Sofia Oliveira in the court room in Strasbourg 9\/4\/24 (Photo: Global Legal Action Network)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It also threw out a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/25\/why-portuguese-youth-climate-lawsuit\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">case <\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/25\/why-portuguese-youth-climate-lawsuit\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">brought by six Portuguese young people<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> against 32 countries, including all EU member states, Norway, Switzerland, the UK and Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The judges ruled that the plaintiffs could only bring a case against their home country of Portugal, striking out their case against other states. But action against Portugal was not allowed to proceed at the European level because legal avenues\u00a0in\u00a0Portugal had not\u00a0been\u00a0exhausted.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Although she was disappointed that her lawsuit was not successful, 19-year-old Portuguese applicant Sofia Oliveira expressed solidarity with the Swiss women. \u201cTheir win is a win for us too, and a win for everyone,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was amended on April 11 to clarify details of the European court&#8217;s ruling. The original said the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Swiss government had violated the Swiss womens&#8217; right to life as well as the right to respect for private and family life. This has been corrected to remove right to life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Court of Human Rights says Swiss government violated its citizens&#8217; human rights by not doing enough to curb climate change","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":50527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4229],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4423],"class_list":["post-50525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-lawsuits","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU court: climate inaction by states breaches human rights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The EU Court of Human Rights says Swiss government violated its citizens&#039; human rights by not doing 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