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Cars submerged in raging flood waters, planes on flooded runways and ankle-deep water at a metro station â this is what the United Arab Emirates and its desert city of Dubai look after a deluge. Dubai received about as much rain in 24 hours as it usually does in a year
Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled.
In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such ruling by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent.
The courtâs top bench ruled that Switzerland had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life