climate litigations

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. April 2024 marked a potentially momentous turning point for climate lawsuits:for the first time a transnational court specializing in human rights explicitly supported the right to climate protection.The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of the request presented by KlimaSeniorinnen, a group of Swiss women over 64 who had brought a lawsuit against the Swiss government for its climate policies deemed ineffective.On the same day, the ECHR rejected two other similar requests. There victory of KlimaSeniorinnen could set a precedent:from now on citizens, associations or informal groups know that they can turn to the ECHR to ask for an account of state climate policies.It is now clear that the courts are becoming yet another battlefront on climate change.The number of climate litigation is constantly increasing:Legal actions against governments, institutions and b...