Top Europe court condemns Switzerland in landmark climate ruling
Representatives and lawyers of three climate change cases involving France, Portugal and Switzerland attend a hearing of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Europe's top rights court on Tuesday said Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states in curbing global warming.The European Court of Human Rights, part of the 46-member Council of Europe, however threw out two other cases against European states on procedural grounds.Hopes had...