On 9 April 2024, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered rulings in three climate-change cases, thus becoming the first international court to establish a right to be protected from the effects of climate change. The leading judgment was Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland; a case brought against France and another one against dozens of States Parties were declared inadmissible. These Strasbourg rulings were followed in short order by a trio of advisory opinions issued, respectively, by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, the International Court of Justice, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, all of which have been extensively dissected in this blog’s symposia … (more)
[Darian Pavli, Verfassungsblog, 17 June 2026]
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