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The Norwegian Grandparents’ Climate Campaign and others v. Norway

Geography
International
Date
2021
Document type
Litigation

About this cases

Filing year
2021
Status
Pending
Geography
International
Court/admin entity
International Courts & Tribunals → European Court of Human Rights
Case category
Suits against governments → Human Rights → Other
Principal law
International Law → European Convention on Human Rights
At issue
Whether the granting of oil licenses violates human rights under the European Convention.

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Summary

The application relates to a judgment of the Norwegian Supreme Court given in the course of judicial review of a governmental decision of June 10, 2016, granting ten oil production licenses, entailing in particular, exclusive rights to survey, exploration drilling, and production of petroleum deposits in areas covered by the licenses. The applicants are NGOs that complained under Articles 2, 3, 8, and 13 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention about infringements of the Norwegian authorities’ climate obligations by their petroleum activities in the Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean.