What is Labour going to do about the carbon budget and growth delivery plan?
Under the Climate Change Act 2008, the government must cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, and along the way meet a series of five-yearly carbon budgets. But when Friends of the Earth and Client Earth challenged the last government’s plans in the high court, their complaint was upheld: the policies were (twice) deemed inadequate and ministers sent back to the drawing board.
