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A Swedish court on Tuesday ruled that hundreds of youth climate activists including Greta Thunberg can collectively sue<\/a> Sweden for the government's \"insufficient climate policy.\" <\/p> More than 600 people under age 26, including 20-year-old Thunberg, signed the 87-page document that is the basis for the lawsuit, which was filed in Stockholm in November and coincided<\/a> with a march through the city. \"Sweden has never treated the climate crisis like a crisis,\" Anton Foley of the youth-led group Aurora, which prepared and filed the class-action suit, said<\/a> at the time. \"Sweden is failing in its responsibility and breaking the law.\"<\/p> The Nacka District Court determined Tuesday that the case can proceed and gave the Swedish government three months to respond.<\/p> \"The district court has today issued a summons in a high-profile class-action lawsuit,\" the court said<\/a>. \"In the case, demands have been made for the district court to determine that the state has an obligation to take certain specified measures to limit climate change.\"<\/p> \"Limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C requires drastic emission reductions starting now.\" \"At present, the district court cannot give a forecast as to when the case may be finalized or when it may be necessary to hold hearings in the case,\" the court continued<\/a>, adding that the case could go to trial or be settled in writing.<\/p> As Aurora's webpage<\/a> for the case explains, the young activists believe the climate emergency \"is a problem we all have to solve together, but the responsibility is not evenly distributed between the countries of the world\" and \"Sweden, as a rich country with historically high emissions, has a particularly big responsibility to take the lead.\"<\/p> Referencing the 2015 Paris agreement's more ambitious goal for global heating by the end of this century, the activists argue that their country's climate action \"is insufficient to be in line with Sweden's fair share of limiting global warming to 1.5 \u00b0C\" and therefore \"constitutes a violation of human rights.\"<\/p> \"Limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C requires drastic emission reductions starting now,\" the youth warn, noting calculations that suggest Sweden doing its fair share would involve moves to cut emissions by 6.5-9.4 million tons annually from 2019-30. <\/p>\n