By Chris Beyer, 360info

Climate change has not traditionally been seen as a health and human rights concern — but that may be changing following recent high-profile court cases.

On April 9 the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who claimed the government's inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves. And in India, the Supreme Court on April 6 recognised a right against the adverse effects of climate change as a distinct fundamental right in the Constitution.

In that judgement, one of the judges said the rights to life and equality couldn't be fully realised without a clean, stable environment. The court also highlighted the connection between climate change and the right to health.

The World Health Organization has declared climate change to be the greatest threat to health that humanity faces.

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