is unlawful, the high court ruled on Friday, in a fresh legal blow to the British government in its efforts to address climate change.
Campaign groups ClientEarth, Friends of the Earth, and Good Law Project had argued that the government’s revised strategy was unlawful because it provided too little information on the government’s assessment of the risk of policies not being delivered. They filed three separate claims heard together by the court.
The ruling came after the high court found in a landmark judgment in July 2022 that the government’s previous policy on tackling greenhouse gas emissions was unlawful, because it provided insufficient detail on how the target would be met in line with the country’s Climate Change Act. Chris Stark, former head of the Climate Change Committee, told the Financial Times this month that Mr Sunak’s rollback was part of the reason why Britain was losing out on green investment to other countries.
“Their plan has now been found unlawful twice. Once might have been dismissed as carelessness, twice shows they are incapable of delivering for this country,” he added.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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