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Court case in Strasbourg becomes historic: "Courts are becoming important in the fight against climate change"
In April, a group of elderly Swiss women achieved a historic victory in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). They had sued their home country for not doing enough to protect them from climate change, and feared the consequences of intense heatwaves. …