The challenge was brought by Plan B Earth and four individual claimants. It raised a number of grounds relating to the Paris Agreement and the Climate Change Act 2008, and argued that the Government’s alleged inaction on climate change had breached the Claimants’ rights under Articles 2, 8 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The challenge was reported in the national and international press. 

The Claimants now have an opportunity to renew their application for permission. 

Press Coverage: Guardian, CNN.

Richard Honey QC, Ned Westaway and Flora Curtis were instructed by the Government Legal Department on behalf of the Defendants.