Climate activist Greta Thunberg is supporting Sami Indigenous rights activists who want Norway to shut down a major wind project built on land they use to herd reindeer.
” with climate action, Thunberg told Reuters in Norway. Action “can’t happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice.”The number of rights abuse allegations related to renewable energy projects has increased in recent years, according to aby the U.K.-based Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, which said the most serious and frequent charges were linked to not respecting Indigenous land rights.
The Norwegian wind farms consist of 151 turbines, which became operational in 2019 and 2020. The independent Climate Action TrackerNorway’s climate efforts as “almost sufficient,” adding that Oslo’s policies are “not yet consistent” with what is needed to cap the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Wind power, which generated about 8.5 percent of the country’s electricity in 2020, is seen as a key asset.
The Norwegian energy ministry said last week that free speech is a fundamental right and that its security personnel was assessing the actions of the protesters. Police then
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