Tuesday's court ruling to change the definition means nearly 50 governments must now grapple with a new era of climate litigation. Warning to governments: You must protect your citizens from climate change \u2013 it's their human right.<\/p>\n
That prescient message was embedded in a sweeping ruling by Europe's top human rights court on Tuesday. The court's conclusion? People have a right to security from climate disasters, which is rooted in their right to life, privacy and family.<\/p>\n
The European Court of Human Rights\u2019 decision to change the definition means that nearly 50 governments representing nearly 700 million people will now have to contend with a new era of lawsuits from climate-affected communities over alleged inaction. (FEDERICA DI SARIO, politico.eu<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday\u2019s court ruling to change the definition means that nearly 50 governments must now grapple with a new era of climate litigation. Warning to governments: You must protect your citizens from climate change \u2013 it\u2019s their human right. That prescient message was woven into a powerful ruling by Europe\u2019s top human rights court on Tuesday. The court\u2019s conclusion? People have the right to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}