CASE OF VEREIN KLIMASENIORINNEN SCHWEIZ AND OTHERS v. SWITZERLAND (no. 53600/20)
What was at stake
Whether Switzerland's insufficient climate policies breach the applicants' right to private and family life and their right of access to a court.
What the court decided
The Court found that Switzerland violated the right to private and family life by failing to take adequate measures to protect individuals from climate-related harms and also breached the right to a fair trial by denying effective access to justice, while declaring parts of the application inadmissible for lack of ratione materiae.
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