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“Older women are particularly vulnerable to climate change. So that's what motivated us to set up this association of older women to lead the legal action.” 💪

🌎 Anne Mahrer is a long-standing environmental activist. 🌎 Together with dozens of Swiss women over 64, she created the association “Elders for the Climate”, bringing the Swiss government's climate inaction before the European Court of Human Rights. 🏛️⚖️

And after years of waiting, the Court issued a landmark decision that gives them reason. 🌱

Photos © : Miriam Kunzli, Greenpeace

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