Taking a page from young people in the United States and elsewhere who are standing up for their right to healthy environment, Norwegian youth on Monday filed suit against their country’s government for expanding Arctic oil drilling despite increasingly dire warnings about the impact such activity is having on the planet’s climate.

The plaintiffs, which include Greenpeace Norway and the nation’s largest youth-led organization, Nature and Youth, are arguing that Norway has violated citizens’ and future generations’ constitutional right to a healthy environment, citing Article 112 of Norway’s Constitution:

This marks the first time that environmental clause is being tested in court.

Ingrid Skjoldvær from Nature and Youth said that the Norwegian government “has an obligation to keep its climate promises,” which include both those made in the Paris climate agreement as well as the constitutional right to “a healthy environment for ours and future generations.” 

Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg was among the first world leaders to ratify the Paris agreement, but at the same time the government awarded drilling licenses to 13 companies, including Statoil, Chevron and Aker BP, to explore for oil in the Barents Sea, the Guardian notes.

In light of those promises, the suit is asking the court to “invalidate those licenses as more oil will cause more emissions, not less,” Truls Gulowsen, head of Greenpeace Norway, explained in a translated press statement.

“Signing [the Paris Agreement] while throwing open the door to Arctic oil drilling is a dangerous act of hypocrisy,” Gulowsen continued. “By allowing oil companies to drill in the Arctic, Norway risks undermining global efforts to address climate change. When the government fails to redress this we have to do what we can to stop it.”