UK government defeated in High Court over climate plans | BBC News

The UK government has been defeated in court - for a second time - for not doing enough to meet its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental campaigners argued that the energy minister signed off the government's climate plan without evidence it could be achieved.

The High Court ruled on Friday that the government will now be required to redraft the plan again.

In response the government defended its record on climate action.

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[Deeplycloseted]

We need to reframe the discussion around saving humans, instead of the planet. The planet is going to be fine, no matter what. It has been here forever, and will be regardless of our stupidity. It is us who will suffer, struggle, and die.

[Always_a_Duelist]

Carbon will be the least of our worries by 2050 & the Government is *well aware* of this

[angelozachos]

Criminally immoral.

Imagine taking your car to a repair shop for restoration, but the mechanic lacks the skills and tools to complete the repair.
But the mechanic charged you full-price, nonetheless.

This is analogous to what we are witnessing with these bogus Climate drafts.
Except it’s costing us BILLIONS !

This is criminal

[wilsonflood]

Good to see the water vapour coming from the cooling towers. Good clean water.

[antsilk]

The world economic forum agender will not work.

[Discoveryjamie]

Don’t be fooled. We are a small island and make up next to nothing compared to the likes of India/china/america. But they know British just put up with it now 😢

[PharmaTroll]

What organization is enforcing climate change in the UK courts against the government?
Why can't they also force the government to compensate people for vaccine injuries?

[Truthfully]

“Legally binding”. Notice these legal teams pick and choose what they fight for? Poor postmasters have been put through decades of hell.

[waynebutler]

Net zero is a national security risk is it not?

[mickylove]

If they could, the Tories would try to redefine the word ‘zero’.

[trevorsomers]

More people are going to be moaning about rising prices everywhere because of this ruling

[Maryhadalam]

People only react when it affects them. But by then they’ll be moaning about why nothing was done to prevent it. Some people do not want to pay for the future they just want to live for today, it would help if life wasn’t so expensive, and work wasn’t so badly paid.

[karenwatson.]

This gouvernement has never been elected .Sunak, succeeded Truss without any legitimity .Can I give you as a French citizen an advice .Vote well .

[Keemstarbros]

And also in 🇨🇳 they must stop these air pollutions because we want the future protecting and save the world and I want to see the year after 2100 and I want to be over 100 not only me but I am thinking the other kids etc for example Prince George was born 22th July 2013 and he also wants to become a supercentenarian in the future SO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, SAVE PEOPLE AND SAVE THE WORLD 🌍❤️

[stevebaker]

That picture of that power station is not pollution its steam .they must stop telling us all these lies .😵😵😵😵😵

[jedjones]

Trillions being spent on a fantasy you couldn't make it up.

[OldScientist]

Britain currently has 39.3 GWh of pumped storage. There are 4 pumped storage stations in Britain. No meaningful storage capacity has been added to the grid since the 1980s, and there is no other large scale energy storage in the country.
To cover a cold dark still winter you would need to increase pumped storage capacity by a factor of about 1000 (taking into account pumped storage is about 75% efficient). So we would need to find 4000 suitable locations where a 300 to 400m dam can be built to hold back 10 million cubic metres of water, with a fall to the turbines below of about 400 metres.
Then we would have to build 160 of these every year, year after year, for 25 years.
The scale, and the massive cost of storage, by whatever method (pumped storage is one of the cheapest by the way), make it an impossible mission.
"Wind droughts" where electrical generation runs at 20% of capacity lasting 100 days or more can be expected once every 50 years. This would see a shortfall of 2TWh at current capacities.
665TWh electricity is projected to come from wind power in 2050 (National Grid). Current wind power 75TWh (2020).
350TWh of Hydrogen storage would exceed by a considerable margin the current annual electrical generation in the UK (~300TWh). It would also be more than 50% of electrical consumption in 2050.
Hydrogen storage is also one of the more expensive energy storage strategies at $203/MWh. Pumped storage $131/TWh with gas generated about half of the latter (At 2021 prices researched by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory).
Let's look at it another way. The Royal Society recommend the UK should have 100TWh of energy storage (it's currently 39.3 GWh from 4 pumped storage facilities). That's over a 2, 500 fold increase. That means building 10, 000 pumped storage facilities or 400 every year.
That's at the same time as increasing wind power generation from 75TWh (in 2020) to 665TWh (in 2050 - these are UK National Grid figures). That's around 100, 000 giant wind turbines. And by the time you get to 2050, the 4, 000 wind turbines you needed to install in 2025 would have reached the end of their working lives and will need to be buried in landfill, and replaced with another 4, 000. It's all impossible and absurd.

[kylesmith]

Care about climate and environment? It is up to everyone to stop buying crap they don't need, to stop being wasteful, and to start holding powerful people accountable for their stupidity and greed.

[lindamacro]

It has been proved that Parliament is sovereign and has the higher position in any negotiation with the courts. Wouldn't sovereignty give the GOV, permission to ignore/overturn the Court ruling?

[babycannis]

Why would they when they have shares in old companies?