Climate Rights and Remedies Project

We’re the Climate Rights and Remedies Project at the University of Zurich and we tweet about climate and human rights news & developments.

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

We’re the Climate Rights and Remedies Project at the @UZH_en and we’re proud to host the Climate Rights Database and blog. Cases and new developments are added as they happen. Stay tuned for regular updates. https://t.co/Ogozq8XozI

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

We have added a summary of the ECtHR's decision in Fliegenschnee and Others v. Austria https://t.co/g3vczemr1k via @Climate_Rights

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

We’ve added a short summary of Greenpeace Nordic and Others v. Norway (ECtHR, 28 Oct 2025) to our database.
https://t.co/MSw0jFV9YR

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Fiji’s fight against climate change holds lessons for us all. Tomorrow, the Ursula Brunner Lecture Series welcomes Esther Gabriel from Harvard Law School.
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
18:15–20:00
Room KOL-G-217, Rämistrasse 71, Zurich
More information see
https://t.co/lJogCktdFr

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Today Helen Keller was awarded the prestigious Grand Walther Hug Prize 🏆
We warmly congratulate her on this well-deserved recognition and celebrate her remarkable contributions to legal scholarship. 👏📚

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

The Ursula Brunner Lecture series continues to thrive — honoring the late Dr. Ursula Brunner, a true force in Swiss environmental law. The 9th lecture will take place on 16 September 2025, with Esther Gabriel as speaker. Details:
https://t.co/lJogCksFPT

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Does the ICJ ignite states’ appetite for climate damages claims? Viktoriya Gurash tackles this in our most recent Climate Rights & Remedies blog.
Read here ⬇️
https://t.co/MMfZWa8HUo

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

On 16 September 2025, we are pleased to welcome Esther Gabriel (Harvard Law School) to the University of Zurich to hold the Ursula Brunner Lecture on “Climate Remedies in the South Pacific: Operationalizing the Vanua”.
https://t.co/lJogCksFPT

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

In our next Climate Rights & Remedies blog, Pranav Ganesan unpacks the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Paris Agreement: affirming 1.5 °C as the primary temperature goal and limiting states’ discretion in setting NDCs.
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https://t.co/JVvUA6fjag

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Our second Climate Rights & Remedies blog features Violetta Sefkow-Werner on the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion, analyzing its treatment of treaty and customary international law in the climate context.
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https://t.co/HJcZ4bL5l4

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

In our first blog in the Climate Rights & Remedies series, Hazhar Jamali explores the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and its cautious stance on extraterritorial human rights obligations in the climate context.
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https://t.co/XxbJ3rEOut

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Helen Keller reflects on the ICJ’s climate opinion: does it open the door to a right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment — or is that right still “not yet”? Read her full analysis:
https://t.co/GAvMAxKfF8

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

On 8 April 2024, we're deeply pleased to welcome
Prof. Ole W. Pedersen to the University of Zurich to hold the eight Ursula Brunner Lecture on "International Climate Change Adjudication: Institutional Imaginations and Doctrinal Innovation".

More here: https://t.co/DD4vmuhuEW

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Heute feiert die @operationlibero 50 Jahre Schweizer Ratifizierung der EMRK. Mit einer Installation in Bern ruft sie die Bedeutung dieses Menschenrechtsabkommens in Erinnerung und warnt sie vor Versuchen, die EMRK i.V.m. dem KlimaSeniorinnen-Urteil zu schwächen. Hochaktuell!

[Operation Libero @operationlibero]

🕊⚖️📜 Diesen Donnerstag vor 50 Jahren ratifizierte die Schweiz die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention. Ausgerechnet zum Jubiläum schwächen Bundesrat und Parlament den Menschenrechtsschutz. Wir rufen die Bedeutung der #EMRK in Erinnerung. Sei dabei: https://t.co/cjniQElPLu

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Heute an der @UZH_en: die jüngste Ursula Brunner Lecture wird von @RichterHedwig gehalten, mit einem Kommentar von @Johannes_Reich und Moderation durch @ch_blattner. Ab 18:15 im Hauptgebäude!

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Two exciting recent rulings just added to our climate litigation database: four landmark South Korean cstl. mitigation cases (decided yesterday), and a German district court case recognizing rights of nature under EU law (!). See https://t.co/Ph9AQY2e39 & https://t.co/ihqoaqbkKO.

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Die gegenwärtigen Starkniederschläge in der Schweiz sind mit dem Klimawandel verbunden. Die Klimawissenschaften zeigen, dass "Starkniederschläge mit dem wärmeren Klima viel heftiger ausfallen und häufiger auftreten". @SISeneviratne erklärt es im Interview: https://t.co/DUxrVJXdSN

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Heute im ⁦⁦@tagesanzeiger⁩ : Streitgespräch mit unserer eigenen Helen Keller und SP-Ständerat Daniel Jositsch. Sie debattieren den Klima-Entscheid aus Strassburg. Sie findet ihn «bahnbrechend», er «falsch». Aber vor einer Gefahr warnen beide. https://t.co/5cd9XjNbbB

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Our summary of the new German "Zukunftsklage" - a constitutional climate case announced yesterday and following up on the landmark Neubauer ruling by drawing on the recent KlimaSeniorinnen judgment of the @ECHR_CEDH - is now live.
https://t.co/vMQniNPLrJ

[Luisa Neubauer @Luisamneubauer]

Wie klagen - wieder - gegen die Bundesregierung! 🔥 Heute Morgen haben wir unsere Verfassungsbeschwerde 2.0 vorgestellt. Klimaschutz ist Menschenrecht und so lange die Bundesregierung meint, das ignorieren zu können, werden wir vor Gericht ziehen. #Zukunftsklage #Klimaklage

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

Last Thursday, in R (Finch) v. Surrey County Council, the UK Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment mandating inclusion of downstream emissions in EIAs.

Today, Hazhar Jamali's comment on the case went live our blog. Check it out here:
https://t.co/fxl7dJM7A4

[Climate Rights and Remedies Project @Climate_Rights]

How do international courts clarify the relationship between the international climate regime (especially the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement) and their own constitutent instruments?

@pranav_ganesan compared the ITLOS and ECtHR approaches for our blog: https://t.co/XNPCyUPPDr