Claimants say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heating

An 11-year-old girl from Portugal sat inside the grand chamber of the European court of human rights on Wednesday to face 86 lawyers from 32 nations in the world’s largest climate legal action.

Mariana Agostinho was alongside her brother and sister, and her cousins, two rows back from 17 human rights judges.

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