By Paul Homewood
Just to update on the legal bid to block the UK’s road building programme, I’ve got hold of the legal submission from Leigh Day.
These are the relevant sections as far as the Paris Agreement is concerned, although the Net Zero Target is also heavily featured:
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Even though Paris has no statutory basis in UK law, they argue that government decisions must take it into account. Moreover they go beyond the Nationally Determined Contribution, which only sets a target for 2030. Instead they expect government decisions to be compatible with the temperature based goals of 2C and 1.5C, even though Paris contains no agreement as to how this should be achieved and how individual nations should contribute to them.
We must await what the courts decide, a process which could take years. Given the Heathrow judgement, which found that the government had not taken into account its own firm policy commitments on climate change under the Paris Agreement, the omens are not good.
It does seem strange that the government must take into account its policy commitments (even when they were taken on board by a previous administration), when the effect is to stop another of its policy commitments, road building!
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April 22, 2020 at 04:39AM
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