Speaking in the Commons, shadow climate change minister Kerry McCarthy laid into the Conservative government for the Court’s findings, which will force the government to make revisions and show how key emissions reduction targets will be met.
The legal challenge was brought by various environmental campaigners sceptical of the government’s efforts towards combatting climate change.
The High Court ruling states that Greg Hands, the minister for business, energy and industrial strategy, who was responsible for signing off the government’s Net Zero Strategy, didn’t have the legally required information on how carbon budgets would be met, even though he approved the strategy.
“Let’s be clear, we are here because the High Court have ruled that the government’s Net Zero Strategy is unlawful and is in breach of the Climate Change Act, and the Committee on Climate Change, which he cites, said only a few weeks ago that the government will not deliver net zero...