VU Climate Change and Sustainability Law Clinic et al. vs. One-Dyas

Allegations

On 23 January 2024, VU Climate Change and Sustainability Law Clinic, North Sea Fossil Free, Scientists for Future NL, Scientist Rebellion NL, and Deutsche Umwelthilfe filed a complaint against One-Dyas B.V. to the Dutch NCP. One-Dyas is a private company which is seeking to extract fossil gas from fields in the North Sea. According to the complainants, the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions caused by the project will significantly harm human rights and the environment, and undermine the objectives of international and European climate policy. They argue that One-Dyas has failed to identify these impacts in their environmental impact assessment, has not to their knowledge assessed its human rights impacts, and has repeatedly misrepresented the climate-related impacts of the project in its public communications.

The complainants are asking One-Dyas to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the project’s impacts and, based on this assessment, terminate the project. They also seek for the company to correctly inform stakeholders and the public about the adverse impacts of fossil gas extraction from the North Sea.

The complaint is filed under the 2023 version of the OECD Guidelines.

Relevant OECD Guidelines

• Chapter II
• Chapter II Paragraph A11
• Chapter II Paragraph A13
• Chapter III
• Chapter III Paragraph 1
• Chapter III Paragraph 2
• Chapter III Paragraph 3
• Chapter III Paragraph 4
• Chapter IV
• Chapter IV Chapeau
• Chapter IV Paragraph 2
• Chapter IV Paragraph 5
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VI Chapeau
• Chapter VI Paragraph 1
• Chapter VI Paragraph 1A
• Chapter VI Paragraph 5
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter VIII Paragraph 2
• Chapter VIII Paragraph 4
• Chapter VIII Paragraph 5
• Commentary Ch II Paragraph 3
• Commentary Ch. II
• Commentary Ch. II Paragraph 16
• Commentary Ch. III
• Commentary Ch. III Paragraph 31
• Commentary Ch. III Paragraph 38
• Commentary Ch. IV
• Commentary Ch. IV Paragraph 41
• Commentary Ch. IV Paragraph 47
• Commentary Ch. IV Paragraph 50
• Commentary Ch. VI
• Commentary Ch. VI Paragraph 66
• Commentary Ch. VI Paragraph 68
• Commentary Ch. VI Paragraph 76
• Commentary Ch. VIII
• Commentary Ch. VIII Paragraph 94
• Commentary Ch. VIII Paragraph 98
• Part 1

Outcome

On 11 October 2024, the Dutch NCP accepted the complaint and offered its good offices to the parties. Both parties accepted the offer.

More details

Documents

• Accepted

  11 October 2024

  Initial assessment

  Dutch NCP
• File

  23 January 2024

  Initial complaint

  Complainants