The government has been beaten in court for the second time by campaigners who said its plans to cut emissions and reach climate targets were coming up short.
The government's plan to meet climate targets and green the economy has been ruled unlawful by the High Court. The campaigning groups that brought the case had argued it relied too much on risky technologies and glossed over the risk of missing targets. Judge Clive Sheldon upheld four out of the five grounds in the legal challenge.
That case forced officials to draw up a second version - the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan - which campaigners argued was still 'a complete pipe dream', and so launched a second legal challenge. It concerns carbon budgets set by the government last year in order to meet Britain's target of net zero by 2050. It was published in March 2023, before Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went on to tinker with some climate targets under a new 'pragmatic' approach.
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