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12 Cases found

R (oao Friends of the Earth) v. Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

At issue: Whether the SoS’s adoption of the Net Zero Strategy did not discharge his duties under the Climate Change Act 2008, and whether the adoption of the Heat and Buildings Strategy has meant that the SoS has breached the Equality Act 2010 (FoE’s Claim). Whether the SoS’s adoption of the Net Zero Strategy did not discharge his duties under the Climate Change Act 2008, and whether these duties had been interpreted compatibly with human rights obligations (ClientEarth’s and the Good Law Project’s claims).
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Greenpeace v. United Kingdom

At issue: Whether the drilling permit in the North Sea Vorlich project properly considered climate impacts.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • Scotland
      • Court of Sessions
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Plan B Earth and Others v. Prime Minister

At issue: Whether the UK government violated human rights by failing to uphold Paris Agreement commitments.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport (on National Policy Statement)

At issue: Whether the UK government's national policy statement on road building must be suspended and reviewed in light of new, more ambitious climate targets
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport and Highway England Company (on Roads Investment Strategy)

At issue: Whether the UK government's Second Roads Investment Strategy unlawfully fails to consider climate and air pollution impacts
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Elliott-Smith v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy et al.

At issue: Whether the UK Emissions Trading Scheme sets an improperly high emissions cap and unlawfully excludes incinerator emissions
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Vince et al. v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy et al.

At issue: Plaintiffs sought review of energy national policy statements in light of UK's new climate commitment and the Paris Agreement.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Packham v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Halt railway project on the ground that GHGs had not been adequately considered.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Claire Stephenson v. Secretary of State for Housing and Communities and Local Government

At issue: Claimant sought judicial review of a section of the National Planning Policy Framework that promoted fracking.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Friends of the Earth and Others v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Whether the ANPS, the Government’s policy providing in-principle support for expansion at Heathrow airport, adopted under the Planning Act 2008 gave adequate consideration to the UK’s climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
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Plan B Earth and Others v. The Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy

At issue: Government’s alleged violation of the Climate Change Act 2008 for failure to revise its 2050 carbon emissions reduction target in light of the Paris Agreement and the latest science
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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R. (on the application of the London Borough of Hillingdon and others) v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Coalition sought judicial review of government plans on airport expansion
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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