The European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of female senior citizens who had sued their government over its perceived failures to sufficiently address climate change on human rights grounds, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A group of more than 2,000 Swiss women over the age of 64 alleged that the Swiss government’s climate change policies were in violation of the right to life and other provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the court ruled in their favor in its first decision pertaining directly to climate change, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
The decision sets a new precedent in most of Europe that could encourage similar cases against national governments and corporations.
“Climate campaigners are........