Tag: climate-change
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Blog Post: Climate Change Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights: A New Dawn
By Annalisa Savaresi, Linnéa Nordlander and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Originally published on the GNHRE blog On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made history by becoming the first international court to grant a complaint filed by climate activists. In Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland the court determined that the respondent state had violated…