“Parliamentarians will not allow themselves to be reduced to extras by international judges,” lawmaker Barbara Steinemann said in a post on X.
Last week, the country’s upper house of parliament approved a similar motion criticizing the court’s ruling. Both chambers accused the ECHR of “judicial activism.”
The Strasbourg-based court ruled in April that the country had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to protect them from the catastrophic impacts of climate change.
The judgment followed a trial in which the Swiss plaintiffs accused the country of not cutting planet-warming emissions fast enough to avoid climate disasters such as heat waves that disproportionately harm older people.
The ECHR is the judicial arm of the Council of Europe, an international human rights organization separate from the EU. Its rulings are binding on the Council’s 46 members, which include all 27 EU countries.
