"Strasbourg court could rule that governments have to protect people from climate change"

Telegraph: 5th April 2024: Reports on three cases coming before the ECHR this week and what it means for the UK 

"The European Court of Human Rights could rule that governments have to protect people from climate change. Judges from the court will decide next week whether people’s human rights have been breached by the failure of governments to protect them from the harmful effects of climate change.

If they rule in favour of three cases claiming their rights have been breached, it would mean that individuals could seek redress with the Strasbourg court and compensation if their governments failed to take sufficient measures to prevent their citizens suffering the consequences of climate change.

The cases have prompted a backlash from the UK Government... Sarah Dines, the former home office minister who has called for the UK to leave the Strasbourg court, described it as a “yet another attempted ideological power grab on the part of a self-selecting and self-serving elite out of touch with reality”.

“The mere fact that this sort of ideological psychobabble has even been entertained and given court time clearly shows the Alice in Wonderland nature of the Strasbourg court and its unqualified pseudo judges... The European Court of Human Rights is now little more than an NGO serving the interests of unelected and unaccountable NGOs.”

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