: The people of Ecuador just made climate justice history. : Small islands slam ‘endless’ climate talks at landmark maritime court hearing : Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policies : Why Portuguese youth are suing European countries over wildfires : Belgian state sued over climate policy shortcomings : Lawsuit in EU court by young Portuguese, largest climate case ever Reuters, : 'Climate lockdown' anger drives Swiss grandmother to sue Bern at EU court More Related News climate and environmental litigation Volkoff, who formerly worked as a volunteer and social worker and enjoys Tai Chi, theatre and swimming in Lake Geneva, says that her confinement was necessary due to a cardiovascular illness. "I have had to enormously restrict my activities, to wait, with the blinds down and the air conditioning on (shame for an ecologist!) for the heatwave to pass, allowing me to go back to normal life," she wrote in a letter to her fellow activists entitled 'a little tale from climate lockdown' which she shared with Reuters. Switzerland's punishing triple heatwaves in 2022 compelled Volkoff to stay at home for 11 weeks with just short outings which she says was worse than COVID-19 and a violation of her human rights. The submission, set to be followed by two more this year, could result in an emissions cut order that goes beyond even the 2015 Paris Agreement commitments, setting an important precedent. Her frustration with what she calls "climate lockdown" is part of her motivation for suing the Swiss government alongside more than 2,000 other elderly women in the first ever climate case before the European Court of Human Rights this week.
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(Reuters, ) Last summer while dozens of Swiss pensioners were campaigning in the Alps to save their fast-melting glaciers, 85-year-old Marie-Eve Volkoff was instead stuck inside her small Geneva apartment watching pre-recorded TV programmes.
'Climate lockdown' anger drives Swiss grandmother to sue Bern at EU court
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