Published: February 20th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court in Stockholm dismissed a class action brought by hundreds of young Swedes – including climate activist Greta Thunberg. „A court cannot decide that the parliament or the government must take any specific action. The political bodies decide independently on which specific climate measures Sweden should take,“ the Supreme Court said. However, it did not rule out the possibility that a climate lawsuit could be formulated differently if individual rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) were violated.