INTRODCUTION
On 9 April 2024, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) delivered its much-anticipated judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland. The case, brought by a Swiss association of elderly women and four individual applicants, alleged that Switzerland’s inadequate action on climate change violated their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (the ECHR). In a landmark ruling, the Court for the first time found a violation of the ECHR based on a state’s failure to take sufficient measures to mitigate climate change …
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Climate Protection Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: The KlimaSeniorinnen Judgment, European Constitutional Law Review. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2025.
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