“It took me some time till the penny dropped that we’d truly received.”
Elisabeth Stern, 76, is a local weather activist with the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz (Senior Girls for Local weather Safety Switzerland), a marketing campaign group of two,400 older Swiss ladies.
In a case on the European court docket of human rights, the group argued that older ladies have been extra more likely to die in heatwaves, and that the Swiss authorities was not doing sufficient to curb carbon emissions.
“Everyone knows the local weather is altering,” Stern tells Hannah Moore. “However the authorities has to do one thing to guard the individuals throughout these very, extremely popular days, proper? And ensuring that we don’t have increasingly more sizzling days like that. So each nation has to make a contribution, which Switzerland just isn’t doing.”
Final week the group received the case. The court docket dominated that the federal government’s weak local weather insurance policies violated elementary human rights.
The journalist Isabella Kaminski tells Hannah concerning the ruling, and what it means for future local weather instances.
{Photograph}: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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