Menneskerettighedsdomstolen i Strasbourg fastslog tidligere på ugen, at Schweiz’ indsats for at reducere landets CO2-aftryk er så utilstrækkelig, at det udgør en klar overtrædelse af menneskerettighederne for en gruppe på mere end 2.000 schweiziske kvinder.
Det er første gang domstolen har dømt et land for at overtræde menneskerettighederne grundet manglende klimahandling og afgørelsen forventes at åbne op for andre lignende sager, skriver The Guardian.
Nikki Reisch, klima- og energidirektør ved Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) udtaler: “The court really recognised that it cannot be that because everyone is affected no one has the right to seek justice for climate harm. And it acknowledged that because of the clear impacts of climate change on human rights there is a basis for victims to make claims.”
Og videre: “All of these countries are subject to the same obligation. Where there’s a gap between their climate measures and what science shows is necessary to protect human rights, they will have to act to close that gap or face legal consequences.”
Ifølge Kelly Matheson, næstformand for globale klimasøgsmål i Our Children’s Trust, vil afgørelsen formentlig få betydning for lignende retssager i USA: “Courts in the US are trying to dismiss these sorts of cases. Or they’re saying this is not our job, this is the job of the other two branches of government. So I think that statement will have influence in US litigation.”
Hun tilføjer: “The European court of human rights has now said in unequivocal terms that courts have a role to play”
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