Cordelia Bähr (born ) is a Swiss lawyer best known for her lawsuits related to

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. In 2024 she represented 2,500 elderly Swiss women in a case against their government, arguing that the state had a duty to protect its citizens from the impacts of climate change. That year, the

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ruled in their favor. Afterwards, she was named to ''Natures 10 list of people who mattered in science, and in 2025 she was named to the ''Time'' 100 list of most influential people. She graduated from the

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in 2006 with a lic. iur. and from the

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in 2013 with an

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in public law. She is a partner in the law firm barh ettwein, based in

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