Ministers told to redraw green plans after High Court rules UK's current net zero strategy unlawful

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Last year the then energy secretary Grant Shapps (pictured) signed off a strategy known as the sixth carbon budget,

Last year the then energy secretary Grant Shapps signed off a strategy known as the sixth carbon budgetThe UK will have to come up with a new strategy to reach net zero after a High Court judge ruled the existing plan was unlawful.

But Mr Justice Sheldon ruled Mr Shapps was 'mistaken' in submitting the plan because it assumed the policies would be delivered in full. In a ruling yesterday, the judge said Mr Shapps' decision to sign off the plan was 'simply not justified by the evidence'.

 

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