Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the European Court of Human Rights on April 9 said Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states in curbing global warming.
The Swiss women were overjoyed as they descended to the court building’s foyer to cheers and applause. “I am overwhelmed at the result,” Pia Hollenstein, one of the women, said after the hearing. “This is a turning point,” said Corina Heri, an expert in climate change litigation at the University of Zurich.
Celebrity climate activist Greta Thunberg was in the courtroom as the decision was announced. “These rulings are a call to action. They underscore the importance of taking our national governments to court,” the 21-year-old Swede told The Associated Press. Lawyers for all three cases decided on Tuesday had hoped the Strasbourg court would find that national governments have a legal duty to make sure global warming is held to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, in line with the goals of theAs part of meeting those goals, the European Union, which doesn’t include Switzerland, currently has a target to be climate-neutral by 2050.
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