Youth bring climate case to Euro rights court

The group, aged 11 to 24, say they are suffering from anxiety over their health and"having to live with a climate that is getting hotter and hotter" with more natural disasters.

"European governments are not managing to protect us," said Andre Oliveira, 15, one of the six involved. In concrete legal terms, they complain of infringements of their rights to life and respect for private life—articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights."There have been cases taken by young people about climate change in other courts before, but this is the first to be heard by the ECHR related to the rights of

"The big advancement in the past couple of years was clarifying that this connection between human rights and climate change is very obvious, very clear," said Maria-Antonia Tigre, co-author of a report on the phenomenon published by the University of Columbia's Sabin Center.

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