Climate inaction by governments ruled to be a human rights violation

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In a landmark ruling...Europe’s top human rights court has found the Swiss government is not doing enough to combat climate change. Experts say it could unleash a new wave of climate litigation.

The verdict suggests governments are legally obligated to meet their climate targets under human rights law.It's a fight so often waged by the world's youth, but now a climate victory has been handed to a group of around 2,000 Swiss women mostly in their 70s

And a separate 2023 study found around 60 percent of the more than 600 heat-related deaths in Switzerland's summer of '22 can be attributed to human-induced global warming. Professor Jacqueline Peel is an expert in the field of environmental and climate change law at the University of Melbourne.

 

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