Climate Change

Climate Change and the Enjoyment of Human Rights before the European Court of Human Rights.

On April 9th, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued three rulings in the cases KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, Carême v. France, and Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and 32 other States, in which, for the first time, the interference of the effects of climate change with the enjoyment of a series of human rights included in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) of 1950 was addressed.

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IIDMA organises a conference to bring science and politics together in the Spanish Parliament

On Friday 31 May 2024, IIDMA, in collaboration with the Commission for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of the Spanish Parliament, is organising the conference ‘The EU’s 2040 climate target: the role of science and the policy response’.

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Ana Barreira (IIDMA): ”There are cases that are strategic because they raise awareness, but the judicial process should not be the only legal response to confront the climate crisis”

The ECHR has condemned Switzerland for its ‘critical gaps’ in addressing the climate crisis in the case ‘Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others vs. Switzerland’.

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