The suit against Sweden, filed in Stockholm on Friday, urges the high court to require that the government undertake its “fair share” of measures to keep greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the Paris Agreement’s goals.
Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, arguably the most famous of climate activists the world over, is part of a lawsuit filed against her government that says officials fall far short in slowing dangerous global warming.
The Swedish suit involves Thunberg and more than 600 others who claim that Sweden’s climate policies violate the nation’s constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. Thunberg intentionally skipped the U.N.’s Conference of the Parties, or COP27, the effort to keep up focus on the Paris 1.5-degree pledge, which recently wrapped in Egypt. She called the conference a form of “greenwashing” that pushes climate-change talk but doesn’t hold participants fully responsible for their emissions.
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