Climate protection is now a human right.
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Historic legal ruling linking climate change to human rights could be a game changer in climate-related litigation.
The court found a violation of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to private and family life.
By GLOGO® Editorial Team.
Updated 9 min ago.
26th April 2024
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Our planet is our home, and it is being destroyed and depleted by our own unlimited overconsumption. Unless we change the current paradigm, the future generations will inherit a wasteland. This historic legal ruling makes a clean and safe environment a human right.
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On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a groundbreaking ruling: states are obliged to protect their citizens from the threats and harms of climate change.
According to Ruth Delbaere, a legal specialist at Avaaz, a U.S.-based nonprofit that promotes climate activism, the verdict will serve as a "blueprint for how to successfully sue your government over climate failures. " This landmark ruling is the first time an international human-rights court has linked protection of human rights with duties to mitigate global warming, underscoring that climate law and policy do not operate in a human-rights vacuum. The ruling is set to reshape climate protection worldwide.
More than 2,500 Swiss women aged 64 or over brought a case claiming that Switzerland was doing too little to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement targets. The court agreed.
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