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Press coverage highlights

The Atlantic

The Atlantic

The Most Personal Climate Case in the World
Die Presse

Die Presse

International Court of Justice gives climate cases a strong backing
Der Standard

Der Standard

Climate cases against Austria: Does the austerity package make a conviction more likely?
WOMEN

WOMEN

'I will sue until action is taken.'
BBC

BBC

Climate change: Austrian children take government to court over lack of action
Climate Home News

Climate Home News

EU hit with lawsuit over green labelling of aviation and shipping investments
Der Standard

Der Standard

No photovoltaic system due to St. Pölten townscape: Constitutional Court reviews regulation
Falter

Falter

'A strategic procedure'

Müllner v. Austria

Climate case against Austria: Müllner v. Austria
08.10.2025 / Die Zeit / GERMAN

Climate litigation: A second Paris
25.07.2025 / Falter / GERMAN

Failure to meet climate protection commitments violates international law
24.07.2025 / Salzburger Nachrichten / GERMAN

Failure to meet climate protection commitments violates international law
23.07.2025 / OÖNachrichten / GERMAN

International Court of Justice gives climate lawsuits a boost
23.07.2025 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Climate case against Austria: Does the austerity package make a conviction more likely?
30.05.2025 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Austria in Strasbourg before the Court of Human Rights
12.11.2024 / Die Presse / GERMAN

The Most Personal Climate Case in the World
06.09.2024 / The Atlantic

Climate lawsuit against Austria: Government will only defend itself in court after the election
27.08.2024 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Climate cases - Hope swings between Vienna and Strasbourg
19.07.2024 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Climate lawsuit: MS sufferer in wheelchair from 25 degrees
10.04.2024 / Heute / GERMAN

Climate protection: "Historic judgement" with implications for Austria?
09.04.2024 / Puls24 / GERMAN

Successful Swiss climate lawsuit: Austrians also go to court
09.04.2024 / Kurier / GERMAN

Decision in Strasbourg: What the climate lawsuits mean for Austria
09.04.2024 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Climate case filed against Austria at the European Court of Justice
12.04.2021 / Kleine Zeitung / GERMAN

Human right to climate protection: Lawyer on the lawsuit filed by the ‘Fridays for future’ movement
02.03.2021 / Puls24 / GERMAN

Multiple sclerosis sufferer plans climate lawsuit
02.03.2021 / Spiegel / GERMAN

Heat forces Mex M. into a wheelchair - he sues Austria
02.03.2021 / Kurier / GERMAN

Climate lawsuit against Austria before the Human Rights Court
02.03.2021 / Krone / GERMAN

MS patient sues Austria over health impact of climate change
02.03.2021 / New York Post

Ms patient sues austria health impact of climate change
02.03.2021 / ABC News

Only in a wheelchair in the heat: climate lawsuit against the Republic
02.03.2021 / Kleine Zeitung / GERMAN

Climate action: Austria indicted by the EU Court of Human Rights
02.03.2021 / Vienna.at / GERMAN

Climate action against Austria at the EU Court of Human Rights
02.03.2021 / OÖNachrichten / GERMAN

Climate lawsuit: Sick man takes case to human rights court
02.03.2021 / ZIB13 / GERMAN

From 25 degrees only in a wheelchair
02.03.2021 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Climate case against Austria at the ECtHR
02.03.2021 / ORF / GERMAN

MS patient sues Austria over health impact of climate change
02.03.2021 / AP

MS Patient Sues Austria Over Health Impact of Climate Change
02.03.2021 / Courthouse News Service

MS Patient Sues Austria Over Health Impact of Climate Change
02.03.2021 / The Washington Times

Austria's climate policy is being sued before the Human Rights Court
01.03.2021 / Der Standard / GERMAN

NGOs v. EU Commission

PV systems v. townscape

Generational case v. Austria

Children's rights, the climate crisis and the lack of legal protection
11.12.2023 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Children go to the next round with climate lawsuit
20.11.2023 / Kronen Zeitung /GERMAN

Children's climate lawsuit comes before the Constitutional Court again
20.11.2023 / Der Standard / GERMAN

New attempt for climate action at the Constitutional Court
20.11.2023 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Children file another climate lawsuit with the Supreme Court
20.11.2023 / Kurier / GERMAN

Children file another climate complaint with the Constitutional Court
20.11.2023 / Salzburger Nachrichten / GERMAN

Young people file climate lawsuit with the Supreme Court
20.11.2023 / Oe24 / GERMAN

Children file another climate complaint with the Constitutional Court
20.11.2023 / Vol.at / GERMAN

Climate lawsuit: Scientists locate systemic failure
10.07.2023 / ORF / GERMAN

Right to a Future - Why Children Sue the Austrian State
27.06.2023 / Wolfgang Magazin / GERMAN

Intergenerational lawsuit: Why on earth do children go to court?
19.06.2023 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Climate lawsuit against Austria: "Mum, can I sue the Republic?"
15.06.2023 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Climate action: A young person on his decision to go to court
14.06.2023 / Der Standard/ GERMAN

Children(rights) without protection
05.06.2023 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Why the climate crisis is a children's crisis
01.06.2023 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Climate change: Austrian children take government to court over lack of action
24.02.2023 / BBC

St. Pölten lawyer Krömer brings climate lawsuit on behalf of young people
22.02.2023 / NÖN / GERMAN

Young people take politics to task: "Lawsuits not for fun"
22.02.2023 / OÖ-Nachrichten / GERMAN

Twelve children and young people file climate lawsuit against Austria with the highest court
21.02.2023 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Children and young people sue over lax climate protection law
21.02.2023 / Puls24 TV / GERMAN

Twelve children sue the state for climate protection
21.02.2023 / Kleine Zeitung / GERMAN

Austrian children take government to court over climate
21.02.2023 / Washington Post / ENGLISH

Climate change: Children and young people sue the state
21.02.2023 / Kurier / GERMAN

Children and young people file lawsuit against climate protection law at Constitutional Court
21.02.2023 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Children sue the Austrian state for climate protection
21.02.2023 / Kronen Zeitung / GERMAN

Farmers v. Soil sealing

CLAW general

How jurisdiction is setting a new pace in climate politics
20.11.2025 / Opinion Editorial in 'Die Presse' / GERMAN

Rule of law under pressure?
25.10.2025 / SALTO / GERMAN

Saving the world by court order?
07.07.2025 / Ö1-Science Arena / GERMAN

Uncharted territory for courts
24.04.2025 / ORF Topos / GERMAN

Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts
13.04.2024 / The Guardian

Will this court judgement save the climate?
10.04.2024 / Thema des Tages (Podcast) / GERMAN

Climate protection as a human right?
10.04.2024 / Café Puls / GERMAN

Climate lawsuit: MS sufferer in wheelchair from 25 degrees
10.04.2024 / ORFIII / GERMAN

Further climate lawsuits expected after landmark judgement
10.04.2024 / Puls24 / GERMAN

Protecting the climate with lawsuits: What's the point?
09.04.2024 / GERMAN

Grannies win climate lawsuit against Switzerland
09.04.2024 / Heute / GERMAN

Court of Justice: Switzerland violates human rights due to lack of climate protection
09.04.2024 / Der Standard / GERMAN

"Historic turning point" for climate policy
09.04.2024 / ORF.at / GERMAN

First climate lawsuit upheld
09.04.2024 / Wien Heute / GERMAN

Senior citizens win climate lawsuit
09.04.2024 / ZIB2 / GERMAN

The ECHR’s First Climate Ruling: What Does it Mean?
09.04.2024 / DeSmog

Young people sue 32 states because lack of climate protection violates human rights
27.09.2023 / Der Standard / GERMAN

Climate complaints increase pressure
06.07.2023 / ORF / GERMAN

"Climate protection as a human right": Zadić places hopes in Constitutional Court
06.06.2023 / Die Presse / GERMAN

Giving nature its due
19.03.2023 / Martinus / GERMAN

Even losing climate lawsuits can be a win!
17.03.2023 / ÖAW / GERMAN

Michaela Krömer fights for climate protection: "Not reacting is radical"
15.03.2023 / NÖN / GERMAN

"A strategic process"
22.02.2023 / Falter / GERMAN

I sue until action is taken - in conversation with WOMAN
10.07.2022 / WOMAN / GERMAN

The state has a duty to protect
30.05.2022 / Wiener Zeitung / GERMAN

"The climate crisis is not destiny"
12.08.2021 / WOMAN

Friday in the arena: climate protection as a human right?
23.04.2021 / Ökostrom AG / GERMAN

The climate advocate
01.02.2021 / DATUM / GERMAN

Recht politisch - podcast by Ralph Janik, this time on the climate lawsuit
29.12.2020 / Podcast von Ralph Janik / GERMAN

Presseaussendungen

Müllner v. Austria

NGOs v. EU Commission

PV systems v. townscape

Generational case v. Austria

Farmers v. Soil sealing

CLAW general

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