Climate activists in Switzerland on Tuesday won a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) holding that authorities had violated their rights by failing to adequately mitigate climate change, in a ruling which could set a precedent for similar complaints. The court found “critical gaps in the process of putting in place the relevant domestic regulatory framework” for mitigating climate change in Switzerland. For example, Switzerland “failed to quantify, through a carbon budget or otherwise” national greenhouse gas emissions limits. However, a similar case brought by six Portu…