Is it me or does this seem wrong. Climate action or inaction is a decision we make as a society to tackle or not tackle. Not a "Human Right".
However, the European Convention of Human Rights was a decision we as a larger society made, as a deliberate safe-guard against having other decisions (or lack thereof) conflict with what we considered the basic requirements for a decent human life. Unless the convention is abandoned, no society that agreed to it can decide (including inaction through indecision!) on something that conflicts with it.
I know of a certain kingdom of life that would strongly disagree
You'll have to consult that kingdom's appropriate court of rights though. The European Convention for Human Rights had a quite narrow scope in that regard.
Do the members of that kingdom have standing when it comes to Swiss law?
Pointing to the inaction of other countries as an excuse for one's own inaction is a weak argument. Good luck suing Russia. (They were actually a member of the Council of Europe until 2022, so this decision would have applied to them...)
But then this feels like suing somebody for emptying his ashtray in a canal where 100 meter further a factory is discharging chemical waste. Good luck suing the factory.
The women who filed the suit are Swiss.
I'm all for suing other nations as well, but we (wealthy western nations) need to get our ducks in a row first. No point suing Poland about coal use while we (USA) also burn coal.
India is not by any sensible measure a "major offender". They do have the third highest total emissions but that is because they have the largest or second largest population. Their per capita emissions are half of Switzerland's.
And yes, per capita is a far better measure than per country unless you can make a case that the people of some countries have some sort of natural or divine right to live a higher CO2 lifestyle.
If Switzerland does too little for the environment it can not happen against the will of the population. Surely having some foreign court compell them makes them overthink their wrong choices.
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Are you saying that human rights cannot be violated if a democratic decision was made beforehand?
The impacts of climate change are going to be seen and felt initially by people who had literally no say in the matter.
So no, human rights and climate change are completely intertwined.
It's easy for this to be out of sight out of mind for anyone living in a colder climate or with enough income to ensure indoors air conditioning.