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This is good - there were worries that Switzerland, which has pushed back strongly (and very problematically) against the judgment, would manage to get this process closed again as soon as it started. Instead, looks like the Council of Europe and the other States want to see more from Switzerland.

and its reliance on a quantification, through a carbon budget or otherwise, of national greenhouse gas emissions limitations. It also requests more information on adaptation measures and procedural safeguards by the next supervisory meeting (September).

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The decision, voted on by representatives of the Council of Europe Member State governments, notes recent legislative changes, but still want to see more details of domestic measures, namely on: the draft CO2 ordinance; the domestic methodology behind the legislative and administrative framework;

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In it, the Ministers’ Deputies rejected Switzerland’s arguments that they’ve completed the implementation of the judgment already, and that no further monitoring is needed (whew!).

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So far, so good! The Committee of Ministers‘s interim decision on the implementation of the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment is out. search.coe.int/cm?i=0900001...

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typical book project timeline

Detail from a map of the A23a iceberg's progress since being calved in 1986; after 30 years stuck on the seafloor it made rapid progress in 2022-2023 but rotated on a water column for 8 months and has now run aground off South Georgia. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d1xp6046o

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m convinced there‘s only one correct way to prepare for one‘s first-ever @mpil.de Dienstagsrunde - and that’s Kaffee und Kuchen

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2025

Did Putin write this?

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I signed this letter, reflecting on the difference it makes to have a secure contract and channeling @marinavelickovic.bsky.social in Critical Legal Thinking about what we do when “the discipline you are hoping will accept you will only do so in exchange for your silence at the dinner table”.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is so outrageous I actually had to double check it was real. What an unintentionally clear window into why all kinds of people dislike and distrust mainstream media institutions.

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Amazing friends, conversations and food - what more does a girl want?

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Outlets like @republik.ch keep my faith in media going - such a pleasure to work with them on this!

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I don't often miss the bad place but today I found out a conservative Swiss Federal Supreme Court judge qualified for the Olympics in Paris and I just... didn't know about it.

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ik kan nu al niet wachten om het te lezen!

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Jonas Kampuš @jonaskampus.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

du weisst, du hast eine ziemlich bescheuerte Meinung, wenn all diese Länder sie gleichermassen verurteilen

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What can I say, I only have two ways of doing things: way in advance or devastatingly late

Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Same here, although I think for some reason I also ended up pasting a list of publications into a text box? (It’s been a few weeks and I’ve repressed everything)

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Well isn’t this just devastatingly accurate

Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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Swiss farmers are suing their gov't to act on #climatechange before their farms become unviable, citing losses of 10–40% over the past 3 years Case was initially rejected & plaintiffs are still awaiting the outcome of an appeal But it marks a significant shift in farmers' attitudes on the issue:

nature.com

Why farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change

How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.

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And, of course, the Chamber's approach to KlimaSeniorinnen as established case-law is a breath of fresh air after the debacle of Swiss backlash against the judgment and the Court as a whole. Not that that a Chamber could walk back a Grand Chamber finding if it wanted to - but the tone is refreshing.

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By contrast, the remedial finding is very exciting - among other things, the Court orders the State to create a new, independent mechanism to monitor the situation, as well as decontamination strategy and an accessible public information platform.

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There's several reasons why this case is interesting - the fact that the Court treated climate change as exceptional, and the victim status/standing criteria therein as inapplicable to other environmental issues, was clear from KlimaSeniorinnen, and so it's low on that list.

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Overall, this case is the first in a likely long line of case-law applying KlimaSeniorinnen. It sticks close to the text of the Grand Chamber judgment - as Chambers must do - but it also reveals a Court willing to engage hands-on with systemic environmental issues in a way we haven't seen before.

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Neither Krenc nor Serghides were part of the KlimaSeniorinnen formation. Notably, they shared this bench with Tim Eicke (of KlimaSeniorinnen separate opinion fame), who seems to have voted with the majority here (!).

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Last but certainly not least, Serghides cites the IACtHR to discuss the customary obligation to prevent environmental damage, and Natalia Kobyarz to argue that States have obligations of due diligence to guarantee effective rights protection.

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Judge Serghides also continues to advocate for recognizing the right to a healthy environment through a new protocol to the ECHR - this has been subject to intense debates at the CDDH in recent years. Both judges consider that elements of such a right are already implicit in the Convention.

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He cites Katalin Sulyok to argue that there's a legitimacy problem involved in ignoring the scientific evidence underlying a case like this, and shows that the right to life includes a "sub-right to be free from environmental pollution or other environmental hazards that may endanger human life".

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Serghides notes that pollution, like climate change, is one of the crises making up the steadily worsening triple planetary crisis, and that the situation in Campania has potentially multigenerational impacts. It also particularly affects vulnerable groups, making it "not unlike" KlimaSeniorinnen.

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