[UK] Climate change: Ministers should be 'sued' over targets
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[QUOTE]Ministers should tighten the UK's official climate change target - or face the courts, the government's former chief scientist has said.
Prof Sir David King is supporting a legal case forcing ministers to shrink carbon emissions to zeroby 2050.
He says the current government goal - an 80% emissions cut by the same date - is too weak to protect the climate.
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Prof King is backing a preliminary legal action by a tiny group, Plan B, run by former government lawyer Tim Crosland.
It argues that Business Secretary Greg Clark is obliged under the act to tighten targets if the science shows it is needed. This is the basis of the case.
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His case would be argued in court by Jonathan Crow, Attorney General to Prince Charles, and a former senior Treasury lawyer.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41401656[/url]
Can't say I'm against such drastic measures.
And here we are pulling out of the Paris accord. Fuck's sake
It'd be nice if this could get passed, however somehow I feel like anything that might endanger Ministers won't make it past parliament.
[QUOTE=mcharest;52723806]And here we are pulling out of the Paris accord. Fuck's sake[/QUOTE]
Ithought Trump quietly backpedaled on that.
[QUOTE=Popularvote;52732107]Ithought Trump quietly backpedaled on that.[/QUOTE]
no, although either way it doesn't matter since coal is collapsing regardless and he can't actually withdraw until november 4th 2019 a day after the election
What law are they breaking?
[QUOTE=sgman91;52733242]What law are they breaking?[/QUOTE]
Basis for the suit is in regards to Climate Change Act (2008)
[quote]It argues that Business Secretary Greg Clark is obliged under the act to tighten targets if the science shows it is needed. This is the basis of the case.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Glent;52733272]Basis for the suit is in regards to Climate Change Act (2008)[/QUOTE]
Also in an ideal world i'd like everyone who voted against climate reform to be prosecuted under article 7 of the International Criminal Court Act of 2001.
Aka crime against humanity lol
[QUOTE=Glent;52733272]Basis for the suit is in regards to Climate Change Act (2008)[/QUOTE]
Do we know what the relevant words of the act actually state?
[QUOTE=EcksDee;52733292]Also in an ideal world i'd like everyone who voted against climate reform to be prosecuted under article 7 of the International Criminal Court Act of 2001.
Aka crime against humanity lol[/QUOTE]
I just hope that we all survive long enough to see the ecological equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials.
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