Jenny Sandvig
Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig
Norway
A pioneering climate litigator who has acted for leading climate and sustainability clauses across national and international disputes, Jenny Sandvig at Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig brings leading expertise to high-profile and critical cases.
In an ongoing and high-profile matter, Sandvig is acting for Greenpeace and Nature and Youth Norway in a validity and injunction case against the approval of new oil and gas fields. With the fields anticipated to significantly augment Norway’s annual emissions, it is argued the approvals violate the Norwegian constitution and the country’s international human rights commitments.
A pioneering climate litigator who has acted for leading climate and sustainability clauses across national and international disputes, Jenny Sandvig at Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig brings leading expertise to high-profile and critical cases.
In an ongoing and high-profile matter, Sandvig is acting for Greenpeace and Nature and Youth Norway in a validity and injunction case against the approval of new oil and gas fields. With the fields anticipated to significantly augment Norway’s annual emissions, it is argued the approvals violate the Norwegian constitution and the country’s international human rights commitments.
A further key client is WWF Norway, whom Sandvig represents in a dispute concerning the validity of the government decision to permit deep-sea mining on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The case is crucial in ensuring that seabed mineral exploration meets the environmental best practice necessary under the relevant impact assessments.
Sandvig is a highly sought-after thought leader, delivering public lectures on topics including climate cases under human rights law and authoring a chapter on human rights and climate change for Universitetsforlaget’s textbook on climate law.