Greta Thunberg joins the climate process against Sweden
Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other youth activists in Stockholm on Friday to file a lawsuit against the Swedish government over its alleged inaction on climate change.
“Today on Black Friday is the perfect day to sue the state for its inadequate climate policy,” Thunberg said on Twitter. “So that’s what we did. See you in court!”
The 19-year-old was one of over 600 young people who signed the petition, which was organized and submitted by the Swedish youth-led organization Aurora. The group went to the Stockholm District Court on Friday to file a lawsuit.
“Sweden has never treated the climate crisis as a crisis,” Aurora spokesman Anton Foley said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “Sweden fails in its responsibility and breaks the law.”
World leaders met in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, earlier this month to discuss the climate crisis at the UN COP27 conference.
While the conference ended on Sunday with a agreement to compensate developing countries for damage caused by climate changesome activists decried the lack of progress in the effort to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“Without binding commitments to rapidly and immediately reduce greenhouse gases, the world has no chance of delivering on the 1.5°C limit, and in doing so minimizes the risks of uprooting the life-sustaining systems we all depend on and endangering countless lives” , Thunberg said in a tweet on Sunday.