Verfassungsblog (Apr 2024)

Mixed Signals for Domestic Climate Law - The Climate Rulings of the European Court of Human Rights

  • Patrick Abel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.59704/ed119b8b22292328
Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

Abstract

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The climate rulings of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are landmark decisions. However, it is not obvious what they mean precisely for the State parties of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Have we witnessed, in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, a landslide victory for the activists that will revolutionize domestic climate law? Or do the two other decisions in which the Grand Chamber dismissed the applications preponderate?