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European court to hear first climate cases against France, Switzerland
France24 ^ | March 29, 2023

Posted on 03/29/2023 4:19:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The European Court of Human Rights will hear cases against France and Switzerland over alleged failings to protect the environment Wednesday, the first time governments are in the court's dock for alleged climate change inaction.

The case against Switzerland is based on a complaint by an association of elderly people -- who call themselves the "Club of Climate Seniors" -- concerned with the consequences of global warming on their living conditions and health, the ECHR said.

They accuse the Swiss authorities of various climate change failings which they say amount to a violation of the government's obligation to protect life and citizens' homes and families.

The case against France was brought by Damien Careme, a former mayor of Grande-Synthe, a suburb of Dunkirk in northern France, who also argues that the central government has failed to meet its obligation to protect life by taking insufficient steps to prevent climate change.

"The stakes are extremely high," said Corinne Lepage, a former French ecology minister and one of Careme's lawyers in the case.

"If the European court recognises that climate failings violate the rights of individuals to life and a normal family life, then that becomes precedent in all of the council's member states and potentially in the whole world," she told AFP.

A third pending case, without a date for a hearing so far, was brought by young Portuguese applicants claiming that climate inaction by dozens of states had contributed to heatwaves in Portugal which they said was affecting their rights.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

1 posted on 03/29/2023 4:19:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a bore


2 posted on 03/29/2023 4:29:19 AM PDT by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And what exactly will the court do if there is an Absolute refusal to comply with the court’s dictats? Remember when the Japanese ambassador told the league of nations to basically F.O then walked out? WWll wasn’t that long ago in the larger scheme of things. Nations Can say NO! To dictator judges.


3 posted on 03/29/2023 4:38:43 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Next EU election is spring 2024. Previously, there were never hyped-up elections, with around 60-percent of registered voters showing up and traditionally voting along the lines of whichever party they ‘felt’ a part of.

In this case (2024)...you can sense the pro-farmer situation affecting things...along with the refugee chatter, economics spiral, and this court case here...are influencing people to go toward opposition voting.


4 posted on 03/29/2023 5:13:08 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This why the US is well advised to steer clear of these various euro trash “courts.” They are like something out of Alice in Wonderland.


5 posted on 03/29/2023 5:13:48 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The con is going on all over the world.

“Man made global warming” doesn’t stand up to scientific debate!


6 posted on 03/29/2023 5:15:17 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Let the “revolutionaries” courts do something meaningful like attacking the big violators China and India.
Or how about the BRICS nations.

Its the developing world who are the massive violators


7 posted on 03/29/2023 5:20:25 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bully the Swiss? Gimme a break. What kind of idiot would you have to be to think that works?


8 posted on 03/29/2023 5:50:30 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SOOOOOOOOOO much friggin’ stoopid.😵🖕


9 posted on 03/29/2023 6:01:51 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lemme guess the verdict “GUILTY”, AND the penalty “ALL YOUR MONEY”.


10 posted on 03/29/2023 6:25:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Vision

It may be a part of the end times “great delusion” that God will allow to overcome the world. It certainly has the ability to control mankind if the left get their way, and will force people to “take the mark” if they want to eat, travel, buy or sell” in th3 near future.


11 posted on 03/29/2023 6:26:35 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: rktman

ItS an “All you can eat” buffet of stoopid


12 posted on 03/29/2023 6:27:28 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Funny, just posted this.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4141691/posts?page=18#18


13 posted on 03/29/2023 6:33:31 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Vision

It is my beleif that climate change laws rules and regulations will be “A” hammer which the one world government uses to usher in the mark of the beast and compliance. Many people will be desperate in mid winter when they have no heat, no electricity, no fuel, and they will panic and go to the beast and ask for the mark so that they can continue to feed and warm their families (same for people in hot places around. The world, only they will be desperate for air conditioning , fuel, electricity, and want the “right” to buy and sell.)

I think there will be several tools that will be used to beat the world into submission, but I personally think climate change lie will be a major tool that the one world gov uses


14 posted on 03/29/2023 7:04:01 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

A veritable smorgasbord. A cornucopia of idiocy. A charcuterie of dumbassery. 🤔👍


15 posted on 03/29/2023 8:23:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

indubitably


16 posted on 03/29/2023 8:40:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...the "Club of Climate Seniors"

Who protects the planet from them?

17 posted on 03/29/2023 8:50:42 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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