{"id":51714,"date":"2022-10-10T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/norway\/?p=51714"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T08:41:52","slug":"european-human-rights-court-adjourns-norwegian-climate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/norway\/nyheter\/klimaendringer\/european-human-rights-court-adjourns-norwegian-climate-case\/","title":{"rendered":"European Human Rights Court adjourns Norwegian climate case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The six young environmental activists (from left to right): Ingrid Skjoldv\u00e6r, Ella Marie H\u00e6tta Isaksen, Lasse Bj\u00f8rn, Mia Cathryn Chamberlain, Gaute Eiterjord and Gina Gylver (front). Photo: Greenpeace\/Lasse Fl\u00f8de<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Oslo, 10 October 2022 \u2013 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to postpone the proceedings in the Norwegian climate application, which seeks to prevent the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic, pending the outcome of three other climate cases. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe understand and we see it as a positive development if the Court first wants to establish the scope of State responsibility to protect human rights in the face of the climate crisis through the three other cases. The outcome of these cases will therefore be important in the proceedings of our application as well. All these cases aim to halt further fossil fuel expansion, a critical step \u2014 along with cutting emissions \u2014 if governments are to protect lives, livelihoods and ecosystems from the worsening impacts of climate breakdown,\u201d said Gina Gylver, one of the youths behind the complaint and head of Young Friends of the Earth Norway. <\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace Nordic and Young Friends of the Earth Norway, as well as six young environmental activists, issued an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)<\/a> in 2021. The applicants argue that the Norwegian state is violating their fundamental rights by allowing fossil fuel extraction in immature areas in the Arctic which will increase emissions, at a time when worldwide decarbonisation is crucial for the protection of people’s lives and their livelihoods. <\/p>\n\n

The three other climate applications which will be examined prior to the Norwegian are from climate defenders in Portugal<\/a>, Switzerland<\/a> and France<\/a>. These cases similarly concern the extent to which states have taken the necessary and appropriate measures to protect the rights under the convention in the climate emergency. More specifically, the Norwegian case argues that the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in particular, is in breach of the applicants\u2019 human rights. <\/p>\n\n

The environmental organisations have not received any time frame indicating when the relevant cases will be decided, nor when the proceedings in the Norwegian case will continue.<\/p>\n\n

ENDS<\/p>\n\n

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