"The summer of 2026 showed what inaction costs; the courts, for their part, have begun to say who must be held responsible for it," emphasize François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associates.
From December 9 to 12, Building Bridges will welcome participants from over a hundred countries. Interview with Patrick Odier, the president of the Geneva event.
A dramatic turn of events and a sign of the times: the international conference convened in Busan, South Korea on this subject ended in the early hours of 2 December 2024 in failure.
The disparity in environmental impacts between different countries is now widely recognized. However, it is still difficult to determine specific responsibility for it, an equation that a study published in the journal "Nature" attempted to solve.
"After COP29, the poorest countries of the South left stunned by the North's refusal to practice a form of climate justice. In Switzerland, the debate over its implementation is only just beginning," says Delia Berner, expert in international climate policy at Alliance Sud.
The railway network can play an important role at a time when electrical grids must be strengthened to achieve the objectives of the 2050 Energy Strategy.
From next year, the Scandinavian country should no longer sell a single new petrol car. However, its ambitions to become a model of green growth remain tainted by its dependence on oil.
