Nine teenagers and young adults brought an application to the European Court of Human Rights complaining that the objectives of the German Climate Protection Act are insufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the level necessary for meeting the Paris Agreement temperature goals (well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels) and that this would violate Articles 2 (right to life) and 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the ECHR.
The Court finds that the applicants don't have a victim status. Their submissions about adverse impacts of climate change are too generalised to demonstrate that their personal hardships reached the required minimum threshold of high intensity exposure that would give rise to a pressing need to ensure their individual protection.