High Court orders revisions to government carbon reduction plans
Ruling in favour of an environmental coalition, the court in London found government strategies insufficiently detailed under climate legislation and ordered the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to revise emissions trajectories within six months.
A sheepish government official struggles to assemble a giant green emissions-reduction arrow from flat-pack components. A stern judge points to the inadequate assembly instructions in a booklet labelled CARBON PLAN. Beside the unfinished arrow stands a carefully constructed offshore wind-farm model marked APPROVED: a specific project has progressed, but the wider plan still needs its workings.
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