Climate & environment

 

HD decision: The Aurora case receives permission to appeal
300 young people hope to bring forward their class action

Christina Nordh

Updated 18.31 | Published 18.31
 

Climate activist and lawyer Ida Edling before the Supreme Court in Stockholm last year. She is one of the three young people who sued the state for lack of climate policy. Photo: Anna Tärnhuvud

The Supreme Court grants the Aurora case permission to appeal.

The case, where a group of young people has sued the Swedish state for a lack of climate policy, may later be taken up in court.

- This means that the Supreme Court must decide whether it is possible to bring such an action in a Swedish court. An examination of the class action in the district court's case can therefore only become relevant after the Supreme Court has answered the question of whether the action can be tried, says Anders Eka, chairman of the Supreme Court, in a press release.
 

Sued the government

The organization Aurora has sued the Swedish government and claims that the climate work is not sufficient and is against the European Convention.

The Chancellor of Justice (JK), who represents the state, has requested that the Aurora case be dismissed and the district court has referred the matter to HD. Today's announcement from HD means that the court must decide whether the case can be taken up for consideration, writes TT.

The petition was submitted in November 2022 by roughly 600 Swedish children and young people. One of them is climate activist Greta Thunberg.

 

Greta Thunberg outside the Riksdag in August 2018 when she started her school strike for the climate. Photo: Naina Helen W. Well