{"id":7562,"date":"2024-04-10T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2024-04-10T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:00:14","slug":"swiss-press-say-absurd-european-climate-ruling-could-harm-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=7562","title":{"rendered":"Swiss press say , \u2018absurd\u2019 European climate ruling could harm democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/swiss-press-say-absurd-european-climate-ruling-could-harm-democracy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Influential newspapers in Switzerland on Wednesday criticised a climate change ruling against the Swiss government by Europe\u2019s top human rights court, saying it risked undermining democracy and the political clout of environmental groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1487426861\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1876223673\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-4593547405373-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favour of over 2,000 Swiss women who said Switzerland had not done enough to combat climate change is expected to embolden more people to bring climate cases against governments.<br \/>\nAs environmental groups celebrated the ruling by the Strasbourg court, newspaper editorials said the decision would fan fears that the judiciary was getting involved in politics.<br \/>\n\u201cAbsurd verdict against Switzerland: Strasbourg pursues climate policy from the judges bench,\u201d the center-right Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper wrote.<br \/>\nDescribing the ruling as \u201cactivist jurisprudence\u201d that could pave the way for \u201call kinds of claims\u201d, the paper said the elderly plaintiffs were ultimately pawns of environmental lobbies that used the court to circumvent democratic debate.<br \/>\nSwitzerland, where referendums regularly test the limits of national policymaking, has committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, from 1990 levels.<br \/>\nThe government had proposed stronger measures to deliver the goal, but voters rebuffed them in a 2021 referendum.<br \/>\nUnder the headline \u201cWe don\u2019t want climate justice\u201d, national daily Blick called the court\u2019s ruling \u201cquestionable\u201d and warned it was likely to deepen divisions over climate policy.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd in European politics, it should be noted, this plays into the hands of those who smell foreign judges everywhere,\u201d the paper wrote.<br \/>\nThe center-left daily Tages-Anzeiger meanwhile said in an editorial that while the court had highlighted the limitations of Switzerland\u2019s climate agenda, democracy would come under pressure if courts began to shape policy.<br \/>\nMaking reference to the 2021 referendum, the paper said the ruling risked confirming widely held views that the court was meddling with national decision-making.<br \/>\nThat in turn could come back to haunt environmentalists at the ballot box when disgruntled voters vent their frustration \u201cagainst the Green parties who now want to use the verdict for their political agenda,\u201d the paper wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of over 2,000 Swiss women who claimed Switzerland had not done enough to combat climate change. 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