More than 600 young people, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, have filed a lawsuit in Stockholm against the Swedish government for its “inadequate approach to the climate issue,” the group said.
The complaint was symbolically handed over during a demonstration on Friday in Stockholm, described as a first in Sweden “given its size,” by Ida Edling, a member of the Aurora Committee, which filed the complaint.
Preparations have been ongoing for two years, but the complaint has only now been filed, at a time when the new right-wing government is under fire for its lack of climate ambitions.
“If we win, there will be a ruling that the Swedish state is obliged to do its part as part of the global measures needed to maintain the 1.5-degree target,” Edling said.
Although the initiative is a first in Sweden, the country was already taken to the European Court of Human Rights in 2020, along with 32 other countries, by six young Portuguese, also to highlight the lack of climate action.
In France, a similar case, “l’Affaire du siècle,” was filed by more than two million citizens who wanted the state’s failure in the fight against global warming to be recognised.
