UK government faces fresh legal action over its climate strategy

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The UK government is facing fresh legal action over its revised climate strategy, just a year after a landmark ruling from the High Court found the previous policy on tackling greenhouse gas emissions was unlawful.

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07 Jul 2023

Campaign groups including Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and Good Law Project have filed three separate claims at the High Court in recent weeks over the Sunak government’s so-called Green Day plan.

The revised government plan published in March sets out its strategy for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero to meet its own legally-binding commitments to curb global warming,

In the raft of policies, contained in 40 documents and nearly 3,000 pages published, the government admitted the revised plan would fall short.

Its calculations showed it would only deliver 92 per cent of the emissions reductions needed to meet the UK’s 2030 goal to cut emissions by 68 per cent compared with their levels in 1990.

“The government’s new plan to reduce emissions is not fit for purpose,” said ClientEarth chief executive Laura