‘Climate lockdown’ anger drives Swiss granny to take legal action against Bern at EU court

Switzerland’s penalizing triple heatwaves in 2022 forced Volkoff to remain at house for 11 weeks with simply brief getaways which she states was even worse than Covid-19 and an offense of her human rights. Marie-Eve Volkoff, 85, gestures throughout an interview in her house in Geneva. (Reuters) By Reuters: Last summertime while lots of Swiss pensioners were marketing in the Alps to conserve their fast-melting glaciers, 85-year-old Marie-Eve Volkoff was rather stuck inside her little Geneva house seeing pre-recorded television programs. Her aggravation with what she calls “environment lockdown” becomes part of her inspiration for taking legal action against the Swiss federal government along with more than 2,000 other senior ladies in the first-ever environment case prior to the European Court of Human Rights today. The submission, set to be followed by 2 more this year, might lead to an emissions cut order that exceeds even the 2015 Paris Agreement dedications, setting a crucial precedent. Switzerland’s penalizing triple heatwaves in 2022 obliged Volkoff to remain at house for 11 weeks with simply brief getaways which she states was even worse than Covid-19 and an offense of her human rights. “I have actually needed to immensely limit my activities, to wait, with the blinds down and the a/c on (embarassment for an ecologist!) for the heatwave
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