The Strasbourg court ruled on Tuesday historic decision in favor of one of three demands put forward in connection with insufficient action by states to limit climate change, and noted that Switzerland has violated human rights groups of older women.

However, judges threw out a media claim brought by six young Portuguese men against Portugal, as well as the 31 other European countries they had sought. condemn insufficient climate change mitigation policies.

Judges They dismissed his charges without considering the merits of the case. primarily because the six plaintiffs ignored the fundamental rule of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that they must exhaust the country’s domestic remedies whom they condemn before transferring the case to Strasbourg.

The young people claimed that The climate emergency has exempted them from this basic legal rule: but the ECHR did not accept this thesis.

In addition, the European judges also noted that in order to condemn other states outside Portugal and apply the presumed principle of extraterritoriality, since their action or inaction may have consequences for them, there are other international legal instruments and the ECtHR is the competent body for this.

They also noted that You can’t dictate specific policies to the States about what they will have to do because of the consequences it will have on people outside their territory or beyond their power and control.

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But beyond this case, which, due to the form of its approach, has already raised many doubts about the possibility of further development, the movement against climate change received a note of hope from the Strasbourg court with verdict condemning Switzerland in a lawsuit filed by some older women in this country.

The President of the ECHR, Siofra O’Leary, noted that Switzerland violated the rights of these womengathered in the association Verein KlimaSeniorinnen because “critical gaps” were found in Swiss climate change policy.

In particular, European judges considered that Switzerland failed to meet its obligations regarding the rights of these older women (more than half of them are over 75 years old) to protect them from the effects of global warming.

They illustrated this by pointing out that Swiss policy has shortcomings in quantifying, through carbon pricing or otherwise, limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

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In the same spirit, Switzerland I didn’t respect you before the targets that have been set to reduce these emissions.

(EFE)