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The climate seniors, together with the environmental organization Greenpeace, explained to the media on Tuesday that Switzerland had failed to set climate targets that are in line with international climate law and the best available scientific knowledge.
The hearing of the climate case before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will take place on 29 March.
Switzerland has failed to meet its target of reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020. And with the no vote in June 2021 on the revised CO2 law, Switzerland has no national climate target at all after 2021.
The international climate target of 50 percent in 2030 compared to 1990, to which Switzerland has committed itself with the Paris Agreement for a target of 1.5 degrees, will be maintained.
Global warming leads to increasingly intense heat waves. The heat would make people sick and die prematurely, it is further argued. The climate seniors state that the elderly and especially women are the most affected population group.
The restriction to women is intended to increase the chance of success of the lawsuit. Similar lawsuits worldwide would have won in the first instance.
The climate seniors officially filed their lawsuit against Switzerland in November 2016 with the federal government in writing. However, in April 2017, the Federal Public Service Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication (UVEK) decided not to intervene.
After the Federal Supreme Court rejected an initial complaint against Switzerland in May 2020, the climate case was submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in December of the same year.
Climate Seniors Switzerland was founded in August 2016 as an association for those affected with about 150 seniors. According to their own statements, the association now has more than 2,000 members across Switzerland with an average age of 73 years. Only women who have reached the retirement age of 64 can become members.
(SDA)
Source:Blick
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