8: Analysing European court's bombshell climate ruling: will a rash of national cases follow?

The Pinsent Masons Podcast

Valérie van den Berg and David Thorneloe tell us just how big the impact will be of last week’s European ruling that Swizterland’s failure to act on climate change violates citizens’ human rights. Will it spark a wave of new actions in Europe's national courts? Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
We examine the impact of this landmark ruling from the European Court of Human Rights, which is binding on all 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights.
We look at precedents from other national courts, and at how the law has developed to accommodate human rights-based challenges to governments, regulators and even companies based on their action or inaction on climate change mitigation.
We explore how future challenges might be affected by this ruling.
0:00 Introduction
0:42 News headlines
3:30 Feature on ECHR court rtuling that the Swiss govermnent breaches the human rights of a group of older women by not implementing sufficient climate change mitigation policies.
6:14 Why this case succeeded
7:05 How a 2019 Dutch case laid the groundwork for this ruling
9:27 Each case needs to be specific about who's been harmed and how
11:51 The impact of the judgement in the 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights
14:09 How the ECHR ruling establish