The biggest climate case that ever was
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We usually see young people as the face of climate activism. This week, we find out how 2,000 Swiss women, all over the age of 65, took their government to court in a case that could change climate laws across Europe. And along the way, we figure out once and for all how the European Court of Human Rights actually works.
This is a special episode made in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation, one of several podcasts we're making this year about sustainability with their support. Stay tuned later in the year to hear more.
You can find out more about the KlimaSeniorinnen here.
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Reporter and producer: Katz Laszlo
Editor: Katy Lee
Editorial support: Dominic Kraemer and Wojciech Oleksiak
Sound design, mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music by Jim Barne, Epidemic Sound and Blue Dot Sessions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Dominic. Hi, Dominic. Hi,ic. |
| 0:24.2 | Hi, Katie. |
| 0:25.3 | You're having a nice time at the seaside? |
| 0:26.9 | I'm having a lovely time at the seaside. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm in the Naples of England, as the poster in the corridor says. |
| 0:33.3 | Do you know where that is? |
| 0:35.5 | No. |
| 0:36.4 | Brighton? |
| 0:37.3 | Waymouth on the south coast, and it's very lovely. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah, I'm just here for a few days. |
| 0:41.0 | Has it got great pizza? |
| 0:42.2 | Is that why it's the Naples of England? |
| 0:44.5 | I mean, there's no massive volcano here, |
| 0:46.9 | so I am yet to find out why it's the Naples of England, |
| 0:50.4 | but I'll report back. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm also going to the actual Naples next month, so it'll be nice to |
| 0:54.7 | compare. I look forward to hearing the results of that comparative study. But you're not the only |
| 1:00.3 | one who's been travelling in our team, because I saw that our producer Katz Laslo was visiting you in |
| 1:08.1 | Paris. I saw that you were kind of hanging out with a bunch of toy owls on |
| 1:12.7 | Instagram. We were, yes. What was going on there? Why wasn't I invited? Why weren't you invited? Well, it was a very |
| 1:19.0 | impromptu visit. It's thanks to Deutsche Barn, Germany's illustrious rail company going on strike. |
| 1:25.2 | Katz was actually supposed to be on her way somewhere else, but she rang me up that morning asking if she could crash at my place. And I said yes. |
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