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Britain's climate action plan unlawful, high court rules
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-courtBritain’s climate action plan unlawful, high court rules
Environmental campaign groups took joint action against decision to approve carbon budget delivery plan
Staff and agencies
Fri 3 May 2024 06.14 EDT
Britain’s latest climate action plan is unlawful, a high court judge has ruled, after a legal challenge by three environmental campaign groups over emissions targets.
The environmental charities Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project took joint legal action against the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) over its decision to approve the carbon budget delivery plan (CBDP) in March 2023.
The plan outlines how the country will achieve targets set out in the sixth carbon budget, which runs until 2037, as part of wider efforts to reach net zero by 2050.
Those emissions targets were set after a 2022 ruling that Britain had breached legislation designed to help reach the 2015 Paris agreement goal of containing temperatures within 1.5C (2.7F) of pre-industrial levels.
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