UK climate strategy under scrutiny at ‘landmark’ court case

In today’s world you can sue your own government if you don’t like some aspect of the weather. It doesn’t matter if an offending weather system blew in from a thousand or more miles away, it’s now a politician’s job to make the weather just right for you. Such is the alarmist position based on a greenhouse theory of trace gases dominating the global climate.
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The British government on Tuesday faces an unprecedented legal challenge for allegedly failing to protect people, property and infrastructure from the likely [Talkshop comment – some say, others don’t] effects of climate change, says Phys.org.

Environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth and two men whose lives have been affected by rising temperatures have brought a two-day case at the High Court in London.

The case is the first of its kind in Britain and comes after criticism of the government’s climate change risk management strategy and a landmark European court ruling against the Swiss state.

Friends of the Earth and the co-claimants will argue that Britain’s National Adaptation Programme to protect against soaring temperatures, flooding or coastal erosion is inadequate and unlawful.

“For the first time in UK legal history, the High Court will have to determine whether the government’s policy to adapt to climate change is lawful, including as to whether our clients’ human rights have been breached,” said lawyer Rowan Smith.

“This is truly a landmark climate change case, which is likely to have far-reaching implications for generations to come.”

The latest National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) dates from July 2023 and has to be renewed every five years.

It sets out the government’s climate adaptation aims, as well as the plans and policies to meet them and protect communities that could be affected.

The claimants’ lawyers will submit that in drawing up the policy, the Conservative government, defeated earlier this month at a general election, failed to comply with the 2008 Climate Change Act.

The act forms the basis for the UK’s approach to tackling and responding to climate change, requiring that carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases are cut and risks adapted to.

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