UK one of 32 countries facing European court action over climate stance

Six Portuguese young people claim inadequate policies to tackle global heating breach their human rightsEurope live – latest updatesA key plank of the UK government’s defence against the biggest climate legal action in the world next week has fallen aw…

Six Portuguese young people claim inadequate policies to tackle global heating breach their human rights

A key plank of the UK government’s defence against the biggest climate legal action in the world next week has fallen away as a result of the U-turn by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on green policies.

The UK is one of 32 countries being taken to the European court of human rights on Wednesday by a group of Portuguese young people. They will argue in the grand chamber of the Strasbourg court that the nations’ policies to tackle global heating are inadequate and in breach of their human rights obligations.

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