Government’s Climate Action Plan Is Unlawful, Rules High Court

Published on May 3, 2024

The government’s climate plan is unlawful because the net zero minister had approved it without having enough evidence to consider whether policies to reduce carbon emissions could be delivered, the High Court has ruled. On Friday, Mr. Justice Sheldon sided with the Good Law Project and environmental charities Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth, stating that Grant Shapps’s decision to approve the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP) was “simply not justified by the evidence.” The judge said the then-secretary of state for net zero “could not evaluate for himself” which policies could be delivered or which would fail based on the information provided. Mr. Justice Sheldon called the details of the draft plan “vague and unquantified” and said they did not provide Mr. Shapps with “sufficient” information on whether the CBDP should be approved....

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