'An avenue is open to the right to life and the right to live in a healthy environment,' says Damien Carême a former French mayor of Grande-Synthe in northern France. Carême's claim that the inaction of the French state posed the risk of his town being submerged under the North Sea was rejected the European Court of Human Rights, but he hailed another landmark ruling by the court that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change. SOUNDBITE