The European Court of Human ... fair hearing (Article 6). The Swiss women, part of the group KlimaSeniorinnen or Senior Women ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sided with more than 2,000 Swiss members of Senior Women for Climate Protection, who had argued that their government ... will take in the future.” ...
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 ...
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 ...
The women, all over 65, argued they were especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. An international court ...
The court ruled in favor of over 2,000 senior women from Switzerland who argued ... make very clear that the European states have a legal responsibility to take real climate action and to protect ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR ... The verdict, which cannot be appealed, could compel the Swiss federal government to take greater action on reducing emissions, including revising ...
In a case at the European court of human rights, the group argued that older women were more likely to die in heatwaves, and that the Swiss government was not doing enough to curb carbon emissions.
The landmark ruling against Switzerland for climate inaction confirmed governments’ obligations to lower greenhouse gas ...
The European Court of Human Rights's ruling ... "The extent to which Switzerland relies on those is just huge," Charlotte Blattner, a senior lecturer and climate law expert at the University ...
Decision by European ... “What the court did quite clearly was to say that, while the Swiss government retains some discretion to define the precise measures it will take, that discretion ...