Fred De Fossard

Fred De Fossard is the Director of Parliamentary Affairs at the Legatum Institute.

Climate change is not a matter for human rights law

We have debated for years whether Britain’s continued membership of the European Court of Human Rights threatens our national security. This ruling means that it will threaten our prosperity and democracy as well.  The ECHR has said that climate change policy is a human rights matter. The Court ruled that Switzerland – a signatory, like