Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis
2024
climate change ; health impact assessment ; legal aspect ; social mobilization
Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00875-4
English
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"2024 is the year of international climate change litigation, with accountability for the protection of health elevated to global and regional courts and tribunals. On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that Switzerland violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women, known as the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, who had brought the case against Switzerland for failing to meet its past greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and set future GHG targets. ..."
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