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Is action on climate change a human right?
Updated On: 10 April, 2024 07:40 AM IST | Strasbourg | Agencies
But Judge Siofra O’Leary, the president of the European Court of Human Rights, came down with mixed judgements
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Representatives and lawyers of three climate change cases at the Human Rights court on Tuesday. Pic/AFP
Europe’s highest human rights court threw out a case Tuesday brought by six Portuguese youths aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but sided with a group of senior Swiss women who also sought such measures.
The European Court of Human Rights came down with decisions in a trio of cases brought by a French mayor, the six Portuguese youngsters and more than 2,000 members of Senior Women for Climate Protection, who say their governments are not doing enough to combat climate change.
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