Greta Thunberg joins local weather lawsuit in opposition to Sweden

Local weather activist Greta Thunberg joined lots of of different youth activists in Stockholm on Friday to file a lawsuit in opposition to the Swedish authorities over its alleged inaction on local weather change.

“As we speak on Black Friday is the right day to sue the state over its inadequate local weather insurance policies,” Thunberg mentioned on Twitter. “In order that’s what we did. See you in courtroom!”

The 19-year-old was certainly one of greater than 600 younger individuals who signed on to the lawsuit, which was organized and filed by the Swedish youth-led group Aurora. The group marched to Stockholm District Court docket on Friday to file the swimsuit.

“Sweden has by no means handled the local weather disaster like a disaster,” Aurora spokesperson Anton Foley mentioned in a press release, per The Related Press. “Sweden is failing in its accountability and breaking the legislation.”

The world’s leaders met in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, earlier this month to debate the local weather disaster on the United Nations’s COP27 convention. 

Whereas the convention concluded on Sunday with an settlement to compensate creating international locations for injury brought on by local weather change, some activists decried the shortage of progress on the trouble to restrict international warming to 1.5 levels Celsius.  

“With none binding commitments to quickly and instantly scale back greenhouse gases, the world stands no likelihood to ship on the 1,5°C restrict, and by doing so minimising dangers of uprooting the life supporting programs all of us rely upon and endangering numerous human lives,” Thunberg mentioned in a tweet on Sunday.