A lawsuit against Sweden brought by Greta Thunberg and other youth climate activists may be revived, even after the country’s Supreme Court tossed out the case.
The youth-led group, Aurora, is scheduled to announce Monday that it plans to take the government to court as an association, arguing that the Supreme Court left the door open to hear a case brought by an association — rather than the 300 individual young people who sued the state for not doing more to address climate change.
“If rich, high-emitting, resourceful powers like the Swedish state act immediately to fundamentally change our economic systems, we have a chance to get out of these planetary crises,” said Ida Edling with Aurora.
The Swedish Supreme Court in February said the case could not be tried, in part because courts cannot force the Swedish parliament or its government to take any particular action.
