{"id":285376,"date":"2024-04-13T05:10:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T05:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=285376"},"modified":"2024-04-15T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:25:37","slug":"climate-change-court-cases-are-on-the-rise-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=285376","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Court Cases are on the rise. Here\u2019s why."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Apr 11, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Yesterday, a group of senior women from Switzerland won what is being called a \u201clandmark\u201d human rights case concerning \u201cClimate Change\u201d.<\/p>\n

At a hearing in Strasbourg, the European Court of Human Rights found the government of Switzerland had violated the women\u2019s human rights by \u201cfailing to do enough\u201d to combat the alleged effect of \u2018man-made climate change\u2019.<\/p>\n

Calling it a \u201cdecision that will set a precedent for future climate lawsuits<\/em>\u201c, Reuters reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The European Court of Human Rights\u2019 ruling, in favour of the more than 2,000 Swiss women who brought the case, is expected to resonate in court decisions across Europe and beyond [\u2026] The Swiss women, known as KlimaSeniorinnen and aged over 64, said their government\u2019s climate inaction put them at risk of dying during heatwaves. They argued their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to such climate change impacts.<\/p>\n

The report goes on to add [emphasis mine]:<\/p>\n

The verdict in the Swiss case, which cannot be appealed<\/strong>, will have international ripple effects, most directly by establishing a binding legal precedent for all 46 countries that are signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

This case is far from an isolated example. It\u2019s part of an ongoing and widespread legal campaign to associate human rights with the spurious climate change agenda.<\/p>\n

Famously, a group of Portuguese teens have been attempting to sue 32 countries for years (it used to be 33, but they dropped Ukraine from the list of defendants when it became expedient to do so).<\/p>\n

EHRC \u201cYouth Climate Case\u201d could see courts forcing policy on nation-states<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n