Top Europe court condemns Switzerland in landmark climate ruling

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STRASBOURG, April 9 — Europe’s top rights court today said Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states...

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Hopes had been high for a legal turning point ahead of the rulings in the three cases, treated as a priority by the 17 judges of the court’s Grand Chamber. In a second case, the court dismissed a petition from six Portuguese people, aged 12 to 24, against 32 states including their own because the case had not exhausted all avenues at the national level.

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