"Climate change is not a matter for human rights law"
Spectator: 11th April 2024: Fred De Fossard (Legatum Institute) gives his view on recent ECHR ruling on climate change
"We have debated for years whether Britain’s continued membership of the European Court of Human Rights threatens our national security. This ruling means that it will threaten our prosperity and democracy as well. The Court ruled that Switzerland – a signatory, like the United Kingdom – had ‘failed to comply with its duties under the Convention concerning climate change’ and that it had violated the right to respect for private and family life...
...By deciding that the potential health implications of one nation’s own climate policies... is a human rights matter, the Court has potentially expanded the remit of human rights over the entirety of social and economic policy...
...we must consider how extraordinary this is...
The precedents set by this case could be grave...Britain remains subject to the ECHR. Environmentalist campaigners may cheer today, but this ruling may make every tax levied, every factory built, or every new car produced a matter of human rights law. The ECHR may have just made its gravest error yet..."
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