The expansion of Heathrow airport is scotched on climate grounds

climate agreement, forged in 2016, has not made a huge difference to the world so far. But on February 27th it got its biggest break yet: the Court of Appeal in London found against the government and in favour of a coalition of groups that oppose the expansion of Heathrow Airport on grounds of climate, noise, air pollution and economic growth. The court said that the government should have taken the Paris agreement into account. The government is not going to appeal.

After a decade of lobbying by business, the government embraced the third-runway scheme in 2016. Chris Grayling, transport secretary at the time, said in a witness statement that the Paris agreement was “not relevant” to the scheme: the government had assessed it under a previous agreement. But that agreement was less stringent than the Paris one.

The decision does not put an end to airport expansion: it leaves room for the government to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan that takes the Paris agreement into account. Businesses will argue passionately that airport expansion is essential to the growth that the government needs in order to finance its expensive schemes to build infrastructure elsewhere in the country.

But if there is to be airport expansion, there is a good chance now that it will not happen at Heathrow. Boris Johnson has long been a passionate opponent of the third runway, famously promising when he was mayor of London to “lie down in front of those bulldozers and stop the construction”. During the election campaign, he said that he would “find some way” to block it.

Mr Johnson is not, by and large, an enthusiast for judicial activism. But with this controversial judgment, the Court of Appeal may have done him a favour.

Is run out of Cuba? They seem to be against economics.

JonnyVamExplore Wasn't it the Greens that opposed burning off waste land in Australia, causing the current disasters?

alllibertynews Judges yet again making political decisions and the lefty/Liberal cannot accept any decision they do not like

Cool story bro.

MONEY , MONEY ! The most powerful governments in the world cannot prevent a virus from spreading ... But they say they can change the temperature of the earth if you pay MORE TAXES .

Meanwhile, the Portuguese environment agency allowed a new airport to be built in Lisbon while endangering a rare bird species justifying it with economic reasons. Great stuff!

And the Economist again proves how irresponsible it is for touting this 'victory' which will impact nothing whilst China and India build airports by the dozens. You really have to wonder how far this rag will fall.

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