Press Releases

Photos of the NGO action in front of the Court can be found here.  Recording of the press conference can be found here The European Court of Justice announced its judgement in the landmark “People’s Climate Case” initiated by 10 families and the indigenous Saami [...]

WHEN? Thursday 25 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 pm CET WHERE? https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/416711597 In 2018, families from Europe, Kenya, Fiji, and the Sámi youth association from Sweden, whose livelihoods are hit by impacts of climate change, took the EU to [...]

Dear Member of the European Parliament, We are writing to you on behalf of all citizens impacted by climate change. We are farmers, shepherds, foresters, hotel and restaurant owners and the indigenous Sámi youth representatives, united in our vulnerability to [...]

For high resolution photos, please click here. Copyrights belong to “Foto: Carl-Johan Utsi”.  07 February 2020, for immediate release Today’s climate strike organised by the Sáminuorra (the indigenous Saami youth association in Sweden) is following the [...]

On 3 December, the European Parliament and the Council have submitted their responses on the appeal of the legal action challenging the EU’s 2030 climate target. Despite the political momentum in the EU to increase the 2030 climate target, both institutions argue [...]

After a year marked by unprecedented public mobilisation for increased climate action, the UN Climate Summit COP25 coinciding with the December European Council and the start of the new European Commission’s mandate, offer a key opportunity to step up EU action on [...]

Brussels, 25 September 2019 , for immediate release The new landmark IPCC report on oceans released today shows that oceans are poised to turn into a huge threat to humanity unless we massively scale up emission cuts in line with the goal to keep temperature rise [...]

Brussels, 07 August 2019, for immediate release The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today proves beyond doubt that stopping the climate crisis will not be possible without a radical change in our food production and consumption, [...]

Brussels, 11 July 2019, for immediate release Today, 10 families from Europe and outside, together with the Saami Youth Association from Sweden appealed to the European Court of Justice on the dismissal of the historic People’s Climate Case – the case challenging [...]

Brussels, 25 June 2019, for immediate release The report released today by Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, states that climate change could push more than 120 million more people into poverty by 2030 and undo the last 50 [...]