The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits

Enlarge / Shareholders of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), join a demonstration against the central bank’s investments in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), ahead of the annual general meeting in Bern, Switzerland, on Friday, April 28, 2023. Bloomberg via Getty Images

Even the temperate, mountainous country of Switzerland isn’t immune to climate change. Sizzling heat waves are melting alpine glaciers, killing trees and fish and, in the cities, likely causing an uptick in human deaths.

Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti, who lives in Basel, is acutely aware of this. A woman in her 70s, she belongs to the demographic most vulnerable

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