TAG: Environmental litigation
Switzerland’s climate failures breached human rights, top court rules
Switzerland violated its citizens' human rights by failing to protect them from climate change's catastrophic effects, Europe’s top human rights court said Tuesday in a ruling expected to reverberate across future lawsuits.The judgment — dubbed KlimaSenio...
6 months ago
Ursula von der Leyen has taken green enforcement behind closed doors
Ursula von der Leyen adopted a signature style for doing business in her first five years as president of the European Commission: Rely on a small team of trusted officials and informal talks if needed to get things done. Enforcing environmental law has b...
1 month ago