Older Swiss women win historic climate court ruling video | World news

In a landmark decision, the European court of human rights has ruled that weak government climate policies violate citizens’ fundamental human rights, in a win for a group of Swiss female climate activists.

The court’s top bench ruled that Switzerland had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life, but threw out a French mayor’s case against France and that of a group of young Portuguese people against 32 European countries

• Human rights violated by inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case