Swiss climate policy shortcomings violated human rights, top court rules

Reuters ^ | April 9, 2024 | By Gloria Dickie, Kate Abnett and Christian Levaux

[Oldeconomybuyer]

STRASBOURG, France, April 9 (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change.

The European Court of Human Rights's (ECtHR) decision on the case brought by more than 2,000 elderly Swiss women set a precedent that will resonate across Europe and beyond for how courts deal with a growing trend of climate litigation.

The Swiss women, known as KlimaSeniorinnen, argued their government's climate inaction put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.

In her ruling, Court President Siofra O'Leary said the Swiss government had failed to meet targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and that there had been gaps in its domestic regulatory framework.

"It is clear that future generations are likely to bear an increasingly severe burden of the consequences of present failures and omissions to combat climate change," O'Leary said.

[antidemoncrat]

What we need is a global government to control peoples’ use of those dangerous fossil fuel products, enforce our life saving mandates concerning potential pandemics and make sure the all non government workers get enough bu=gs and algae to eat ... Riiiiiiiiiiight

[Track9]

Parallel to the Salem Witch trials hysteria. If they float, they’re witches.

[Paal Gulli]

Switzerland is the 104th most polluted country (PM2.5 concentration) out of 134 ranked.

Liestal, Switzerland ranks 1757th on the list of the most polluted cities with about 1/8th of the air pollution of the worst of the lot (all of which are in India).

https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-countries

https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-cities?continent=&country=&state=&sort=-rank&page=36&perPage=50&cities=

The three largest countries on the Indian subcontinent are the three worst polluters in the world. The top eight all are in Asia. China is “only” 19th on the list.

MMGW hoax or no, what the rest of the world does to clean up the atmosphere is meaningless unless the top 20 major countries (not incl. Nepal, Kuwait, etc) don’t clean up their act first.

[guest7]

"Those are called hot flashes - and have nothing to do with the weather. :)"

I didn't know they were lethal. Maybe if you're also a vegan.

[Bob Wills is still the king]

Well, it is the European Human Rights Court and the Swiss, so it doesn’t have much resemblance to our laws.

[Libloather]