The Court seems to have spelled out a clear way forward for climate cases - and confirmed that climate change is very much an ECHR issue,” she writes from Strasbourg, while live-tweeting the hearing on X.
Surely this means that means that responsible people, like fossil fuel CEOs or legislators slowing down the change to renewables will be held accountable, right?
Right?
Right?
Yips, that’s the idea.
Here some DW background info of the youth protest, especially by the Portuguese youngsters.
Unfortunately, the Portuguese suit was unsuccessful, because it was “too far reaching” according to ECHR, the can’t sue more than their own country and haven’t gone through their own country’s legal system before sueing in front of the ECHR.
Only the swiss seniors’ suit (try saying that three times as fast as you can lol) was successful.
