Trial kick-off: largest climate lawsuit in the history of the ECtHR

It is the largest climate change case in the history of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): Six young people from Portugal are suing a total of 32 European governments. Among them are all 27 EU member states as well as Great Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Russia and Turkey. The trial kicked off in Strasbourg on Wednesday. The six young Portuguese claimed that their human rights are being violated because governments are not acting fast enough against climate change.