{"id":209673,"date":"2025-06-24T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209673\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:27:08","slug":"a5-court-decision-shows-reach-of-the-climate-change-act-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209673\/","title":{"rendered":"A5: Court decision shows reach of the climate change act 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Central to the implementation of the Act is Section 52 which requires Stormont departments to hit their own targets and cooperate to reach the overall net-zero goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his judgement Mr Justice McAlinden ruled that the Department for Infrastructure was in breach of Section 52 as it had failed to produce the evidence to show that upgrading the A5 would be consistent with overall climate targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He found the department had instead made &#8220;aspirational assumptions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Section 52 does not prevent a major infrastructure project which is a source of significant greenhouse gas emissions being devised, promoted, constructed and put into operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But what it does clearly rule out is the construction and operation of such a major project in the absence of robust planning,  synchronisation and co-ordination between all NI government departments to ensure that the project fits into the plans, strategies and policies which  map out a realistic and achievable pathway to achieving net zero by 2050.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central to the implementation of the Act is Section 52 which requires Stormont departments to hit their own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114736925449515994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}