🇨🇭Switzerland

Switzerland's oldest citizen energy cooperative lets ordinary members co-own the solar, wind and hydro plants powering their neighborhoods.

Since 1982, this Swiss foundation has kept old alpine grain, vegetable and fruit varieties and mountain livestock breeds alive by growing them, not just storing them, on working farms.

Since scientists first measured Swiss glacier tongues in 1880, this joint university network has kept an unbroken record of how fast the Alps' ice is disappearing.

A Swiss association of older women sued their government over climate inaction and won the first-ever human-rights ruling on climate change.