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Irish Supreme Court quashes Government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases (via #TheIrishTimes)

#ClimateCaseIreland Supreme Court ruling against the #Irish #ClimateChange National Mitigation Plan:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/supreme-court/supreme-court-quashes-government-s-plan-to-reduce-greenhouse-gases-1.4318578

#ClimateCaseIreland Supreme Court ruling against the #Irish #ClimateChange National Mitigation Plan:

Here is the Supreme Court’s judgment: https://beta.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/bbf8986b-d377-44e8-bc22-c1903c437053/2020_IESC_49%20(Unapproved).pdf/pdf#view=fitH

“[the National Mitigation Plan] falls well short of the level of specificity required...to comply with the provisions of the 2015 [Climate] Act. On that basis, I propose that the Plan be quashed”