BSoG-VUB joint event - Landmark Climate Cases at the ECHR and IACHR

Hybrid event: Pleinlaan 5, room Rome/Lisbon

The event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

On April 9, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered a major trio of decisions dealing for the first time with climate change: Carême v. France (application no. 7189/21), Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others (application no. 39371/20) and Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (application no. 53600/20). While two of the cases were dismissed on procedural grounds, one historic decision was made arguing that Switzerland had violated human rights due to climate inaction, leading the Court to rule that climate change endangers human rights and setting what has been qualified as a groundbreaking precedent.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights holds its 166th Regular Session in Barbados from April 22 to 26, in a public hearing on the…