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From The Guardian - Climate Change
Summary
- The UK government’s climate action plan has been ruled unlawful for not having enough evidence to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- The government must now create a revised plan to meet legally binding carbon budgets and emissions reduction goals.
- Environmental groups took legal action to challenge the decision, which was found to be based on incomplete information and incorrect assumptions.
The UK government’s climate action plan is unlawful, the high court has ruled, as there is not enough evidence that there are sufficient policies in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The energy secretary, Claire Coutinho, will now be expected to draw up a revised plan within 12 months. This must ensure that the UK achieves its legally binding carbon budgets and its pledge to cut emissions by more than two-thirds by 2030, both of which the government is off track to meet.
The environmental charities Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth took joint legal action with the Good Law Project against the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) over its decision to approve the carbon budget delivery plan (CBDP) in March 2023.
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The Climate Change Committee’s assessment last year was that the government only had credible policies in place for less than 20% of the emissions cuts needed to meet the sixth carbon budget.
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Read the full post at The Guardian - Climate Change.
