Gerry Liston

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Gerry Listonis a qualified solicitor (Ireland), a PhD candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights and is the legal officer with GLAN responsible for leading its work on this case.

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Climate change and the European Court of Human Rights: The Portuguese Youth Case

On 3 September, six Portuguese children and young adults (aged 8 to 21) issued an Application to the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) against 33 Council of Europe Member States (all of the EU 27, plus the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine) in respect of the profound, ongoing, and worsening impact that climate change is having upon…

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