Former Green Party federal judge Brigitte Pfiffner has described the climate judgement of the European Court of Human Rights as "legally untenable". The court is making policy instead of interpreting the Convention on Human Rights, said Pfiffner. In the case of the climate seniors, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) barely addressed the central questions in the grounds for the judgement, said Pfiffner in an interview with the SonntagsZeitung newspaper published on Sunday. The Zurich native was a judge at the Federal Supreme Court for around ten years. One of the questions is why an association is entitled to lodge a complaint and which human right has been violated by the Climate Seniors Association. "This is dealt with in just eleven lines in the 138-page judgement," she said. The reasoning was "because the matter is important", the former federal judge said. +Landmark ruling: Switzerland’s climate policy violates human rights There was also no convincing answer to the ...
