GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. panel said it could not immediately rule on a complaint by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and others that state inaction on climate change violates children's rights, adding that they should have taken the case to national courts first.
The complaint was filed with the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-un-complaint-idUSKBN1W82AS and the 18-member panel has been conducting hearings and deliberating since.
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