The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held, on Wednesday 27 September, a hearing in the case of ‘Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and 32 others’, which pits six young Portuguese against the 27 Member States, as well as the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Russia and Turkey. Although Ukraine was initially involved, the charges against it were dropped after the Russian invasion.
The case, which was filed in September 2020, concerns greenhouse gas emissions produced by the...