Corina Heri
@cohelongo.bsky.social
Assistant prof., Tilburg Law School | Habilitation-ing at the University of Zurich | human rights law, climate change, vulnerability, courts | she/her
Happy one-year anniversary to the most on-point text I ever sent (well, wrong about the art. 13 issue - but close enough)
April 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Happy one-year anniversary to the most on-point text I ever sent (well, wrong about the art. 13 issue - but close enough)
So far, so good! The Committee of Ministers‘s interim decision on the implementation of the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment is out. search.coe.int/cm?i=0900001...
March 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
So far, so good! The Committee of Ministers‘s interim decision on the implementation of the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment is out. search.coe.int/cm?i=0900001...
Today the ECtHR issued its 1st judgment building on KlimaSeniorinnen - it's not a climate case (we'll have to wait on Müllner v. Austria for that), but an Italian pollution case engaging heavily with KlimaSeniorinnen. Here's what it held in Cannavacciuolo et al.:
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
January 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Today the ECtHR issued its 1st judgment building on KlimaSeniorinnen - it's not a climate case (we'll have to wait on Müllner v. Austria for that), but an Italian pollution case engaging heavily with KlimaSeniorinnen. Here's what it held in Cannavacciuolo et al.:
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
I recently had the pleasure of contributing to the Spanish Yearbook of International Law at the invitation of Ángel Rodrigo Hernández and Beatriz Vázquez Rodríguez and as I'm reading the proofs I'm more and more convinced this tracks (ie KlimaSeniorinnen as somewhere between individual case and AO)
January 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I recently had the pleasure of contributing to the Spanish Yearbook of International Law at the invitation of Ángel Rodrigo Hernández and Beatriz Vázquez Rodríguez and as I'm reading the proofs I'm more and more convinced this tracks (ie KlimaSeniorinnen as somewhere between individual case and AO)
It's here, folks: the submission by the #KlimaSeniorinnen to the process supervising the execution of their ECtHR judgment. They don't beat around the bush, explaining the science, the Court's reasoning and that Switzerland doesn't have a carbon budget yet... www.klimaseniorinnen.ch/wp-content/u...
January 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's here, folks: the submission by the #KlimaSeniorinnen to the process supervising the execution of their ECtHR judgment. They don't beat around the bush, explaining the science, the Court's reasoning and that Switzerland doesn't have a carbon budget yet... www.klimaseniorinnen.ch/wp-content/u...
You can take the girl out of Switzerland, but apparently Switzerland will follow her wherever she goes (🥳🙌🏼 happy weekend from me and my niche chocolate fandom post)
January 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
You can take the girl out of Switzerland, but apparently Switzerland will follow her wherever she goes (🥳🙌🏼 happy weekend from me and my niche chocolate fandom post)
Here's a cute little overview of the process from the Council of Europe itself:
January 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Here's a cute little overview of the process from the Council of Europe itself:
How I feel after recovering an unsaved document when Word crashes
January 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How I feel after recovering an unsaved document when Word crashes
Writing partner and harshest critic
January 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Writing partner and harshest critic
Many of you asked me what I think of George Letsas’s argument that KlimaSeniorinnen was not an actio popularis because (and only because) the association represented future generations. So I did a blogpost (after a very enjoyable exchange with George himself!): www.ejiltalk.org?mailpoet_rou...
December 19, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Many of you asked me what I think of George Letsas’s argument that KlimaSeniorinnen was not an actio popularis because (and only because) the association represented future generations. So I did a blogpost (after a very enjoyable exchange with George himself!): www.ejiltalk.org?mailpoet_rou...
It’s official: examination of the KlimaSeniorinnen implementation plan by the Committee of Ministers this March!
December 18, 2024 at 10:13 PM
It’s official: examination of the KlimaSeniorinnen implementation plan by the Committee of Ministers this March!
Event alert: Join us on Monday at 11 CET for a roundtable about the ICJ climate advisory proceedings put together by the fantastic @yusrasuedi.bsky.social and @mikebecker.bsky.social!
December 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Event alert: Join us on Monday at 11 CET for a roundtable about the ICJ climate advisory proceedings put together by the fantastic @yusrasuedi.bsky.social and @mikebecker.bsky.social!
I’ve been traveling so I’m only now getting my Faculty holiday gift. Do I:
(a) Eat two chocolates a day until the 24th or
(b) Eat days 1-12 immediately?
Feedback welcome.
(a) Eat two chocolates a day until the 24th or
(b) Eat days 1-12 immediately?
Feedback welcome.
December 12, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I’ve been traveling so I’m only now getting my Faculty holiday gift. Do I:
(a) Eat two chocolates a day until the 24th or
(b) Eat days 1-12 immediately?
Feedback welcome.
(a) Eat two chocolates a day until the 24th or
(b) Eat days 1-12 immediately?
Feedback welcome.
Bonjour Strasbourg
December 9, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Bonjour Strasbourg
Day four of the ICJ climate hearings and the UN web player is permanently burned into my retinas. Today's states: France; Sierra Leone; Ghana; Grenada and Guatemala; the Cook Islands; the Marshall Islands: the Solomon Islands; India; Iran and Indonesia. Watch here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1h...
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Day four of the ICJ climate hearings and the UN web player is permanently burned into my retinas. Today's states: France; Sierra Leone; Ghana; Grenada and Guatemala; the Cook Islands; the Marshall Islands: the Solomon Islands; India; Iran and Indonesia. Watch here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1h...
Something positive in a sea of bad news: the KlimaSeniorinnen are on the list of nominees for @prospectmagazine.co.uk's "World’s Top Thinker 2025" -- voting is ongoing over at www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
December 4, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Something positive in a sea of bad news: the KlimaSeniorinnen are on the list of nominees for @prospectmagazine.co.uk's "World’s Top Thinker 2025" -- voting is ongoing over at www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
“Nature doesn’t care about the size of the original contribution” - Norway’s representative, on behalf of the Nordics, arguing against a historic emissions-based approach. Not unexpected but kind of rich coming from a petrostate.
December 4, 2024 at 10:30 AM
“Nature doesn’t care about the size of the original contribution” - Norway’s representative, on behalf of the Nordics, arguing against a historic emissions-based approach. Not unexpected but kind of rich coming from a petrostate.
Mention of the Belgian Klimaatzaak - as well as of Urgenda and KlimaSeniorinnen - by Côte d'Ivoire to argue that all States must calculate carbon budgets and have economy-wide emissions reductions targets - they provide a tour de force of climate litigation in domestic systems, including...
December 4, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Mention of the Belgian Klimaatzaak - as well as of Urgenda and KlimaSeniorinnen - by Côte d'Ivoire to argue that all States must calculate carbon budgets and have economy-wide emissions reductions targets - they provide a tour de force of climate litigation in domestic systems, including...
The floor then goes to Carlos Sorreta, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in Geneva. He notes the destabilizing effect of climate change, conflicts, and displacement.
December 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
The floor then goes to Carlos Sorreta, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in Geneva. He notes the destabilizing effect of climate change, conflicts, and displacement.
The floor then goes to Menardo Guevarra, Solicitor General of the Philippines, who argues that climate impacts like intense heat waves, devastating typhoons and storms, droughts, wildfires and other impacts are not abstractions, but are currently happening, particularly in developing States.
December 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
The floor then goes to Menardo Guevarra, Solicitor General of the Philippines, who argues that climate impacts like intense heat waves, devastating typhoons and storms, droughts, wildfires and other impacts are not abstractions, but are currently happening, particularly in developing States.
We then moved on to Cameroon, represented by Madeleine Liguemoh Ondoua, Ambassador of Cameroon to the Netherlands. She emphasized the disparities in terms of emissions and impacts and the importance of human rights law before passing the floor to Pierre-Olivier Savoie, who reiterates the relevance..
December 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
We then moved on to Cameroon, represented by Madeleine Liguemoh Ondoua, Ambassador of Cameroon to the Netherlands. She emphasized the disparities in terms of emissions and impacts and the importance of human rights law before passing the floor to Pierre-Olivier Savoie, who reiterates the relevance..
He also urged the Court to be comprehensive in its opinion, clarifying all the impacts, obligations and legal consequences of their breaches.
Continuing for Burkina Faso, Prof. Mamadou Hébié notes that the PA/UNFCCC don't create any exemption or derogation from all of remaining international law.
Continuing for Burkina Faso, Prof. Mamadou Hébié notes that the PA/UNFCCC don't create any exemption or derogation from all of remaining international law.
December 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
He also urged the Court to be comprehensive in its opinion, clarifying all the impacts, obligations and legal consequences of their breaches.
Continuing for Burkina Faso, Prof. Mamadou Hébié notes that the PA/UNFCCC don't create any exemption or derogation from all of remaining international law.
Continuing for Burkina Faso, Prof. Mamadou Hébié notes that the PA/UNFCCC don't create any exemption or derogation from all of remaining international law.
[I missed Burkina Faso's intervention for a meeting but now I'm *back*] - based on speed-watching, their intervention focused the fact that inability to take climate action often goes hand in hand with high levels of climate vulnerability. Ambassador Léopold Tonguenoma Bonkoungou argued that ...
December 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
[I missed Burkina Faso's intervention for a meeting but now I'm *back*] - based on speed-watching, their intervention focused the fact that inability to take climate action often goes hand in hand with high levels of climate vulnerability. Ambassador Léopold Tonguenoma Bonkoungou argued that ...
Jorge Galindo continues for Brazil, emphasizing CBDR-RC to argue that developed countries must reduce their emissions faster and support developing ones. Brazil sees no reason why the customary no-harm rule wouldn't apply to climate change, reflecting CBDR-RC in its construction of due diligence.
December 3, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Jorge Galindo continues for Brazil, emphasizing CBDR-RC to argue that developed countries must reduce their emissions faster and support developing ones. Brazil sees no reason why the customary no-harm rule wouldn't apply to climate change, reflecting CBDR-RC in its construction of due diligence.