U.N. panel says it can't rule on climate case brought by Thunberg

FILE PHOTO: Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks as she joins students holding a Fridays for Future climate strike while environment ministers meet ahead of Glasgow's COP26 meeting, in Milan, Italy, October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

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.