The young people of Montana and the senior women of Switzerland have shown us an effective legal strategy to push our ...
A group of senior Swiss women recently won a powerful victory offering renewed hope for tackling climate change. Earlier this ...
The political battle against climate change has, so far, largely been driven by government legislation and regulation.
The seeds of this week’s historic victory by an association of elderly women at the European Court of Human Rights were sown in the baking heat of summer 2003. That year, a heat wave killed as many as ...
EUROPE—In a groundbreaking decision, Europe’s highest human rights court ruled in favour of a group of 2,000 Swiss women, all aged 64 and older, who accused their government of failing to adequately ...
CLIMATEWIRE | A landmark ruling Tuesday by a European human rights court ... group of senior women to “pursue further remedies in the Swiss courts, should the government fail to take the steps ...
The European ... government at the court, took note of the ruling. "Together with the authorities concerned, we will now analyze the extensive judgment and review what measures Switzerland will ...
Europe’s top rights court ... Swiss government said it will analyse the ruling and review future measures. The Swiss verdict, which cannot be appealed, could compel the government to take ...
Europe's top human rights court ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who said their government violated their ...
The European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of senior Swiss women who argued their government ... the ruling to see what actions it would need to take. “This is a decision for the national ...
Blattner is a senior ... Bern, Switzerland, and head of the research group on climate law at the university’s Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. On 9 April, the European Court of ...