Jess O'Thomson @goodlawproject concludes that:
'Now that the [Strasbourg] court has recognised the important role human rights have to play in addressing the climate crisis, it should be easier to hold states accountable for their climate vandalism'!
For climate activists this is a shift to what has (in other contexts) been referred to as 'lawfare' to try to get states to make good on their promises.... lets hope it works (even partially)
#ClimateCrisis #humanrights
https://goodlawproject.org/european-court-of-human-rights-states-must-take-immediate-climate-action/?utm_source=Good+Law+Project&utm_campaign=c7b703759e-EMAIL_BriefThoughts_2024_04_12_10_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db5adb9599-c7b703759e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=c7b703759e&mc_eid=d1a285487f
@ChrisMayLA6 @goodlawproject have you seen what Rees-Mogg is saying? This is why tories want out. Dodging accountability again.
I haven't.... but I know it won't be supportive of the Court!
I was doing some research for the Green Plenty article I published yesterday and came across this example of plutocrat bonkers
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/jacob-rees-mogg-democratic-mandate-echr-climate
Useful weathercock. If he's for something I'm probably against it. Except he did say the right thing about Shamima Begum.
@francis @goodlawproject
He's just a toxic patrician idiot, who is trying to convince the susceptible that his own personal interest is really the national interest.... it isn't!