{"id":9655,"date":"2024-07-02T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:50:53","slug":"the-european-court-of-human-rights-finds-that-switzerland-violated-its-climate-change-related-obligations-under-the-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2024\/07\/02\/the-european-court-of-human-rights-finds-that-switzerland-violated-its-climate-change-related-obligations-under-the-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Court of Human Rights finds that Switzerland violated its climate change-related obligations under the Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Human Rights <a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng#%7B%22itemid%22:%5B%22001-233206%22%5D%7D\">found<\/a> that Switzerland was not acting timely, sufficiently, and consistently to fulfill its positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights related to climate change. This is the first decision of an international court or tribunal that finds a violation of climate change-related human rights by a state\u2019s inactivity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Human Rights found that Switzerland was not acting timely, sufficiently, and consistently to fulfill its positive obligations under the European Convention on [&hellip;]<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}