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Britain's Climate Action Plan Unlawful, High Court Rules
vendredi 3 mai 2024, 21:41 , par Slashdot
In a ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Sheldon upheld four of the five grounds of the groups' legal challenge, stating that the decision by the former energy security and net zero secretary Grant Shapps was 'simply not justified by the evidence.' He said: 'If, as I have found, the secretary of state did make his decision on the assumption that each of the proposals and policies would be delivered in full, then the secretary of state's decision was taken on the basis of a mistaken understanding of the true factual position.' The judge agreed with ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth that the secretary of state was given 'incomplete' information about the likelihood that proposed policies would achieve their intended emissions cuts. This breached section 13 of the Climate Change Act, which requires the secretary of state to adopt plans and proposals that they consider will enable upcoming carbon budgets to be delivered. Sheldon also agreed with the environment groups that the central assumption that all the department's policies would achieve 100% of their intended emissions cuts was wrong. The judge said the secretary of state had acted irrationally, and on the basis of an incorrect understanding of the facts. This comes after the Guardian revealed the government would be allowing oil and gas drilling under offshore wind turbines, a decision criticised by climate experts as 'deeply irresponsible.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1942206/britains-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court-ru...
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