The Supreme Court of Ireland, the country’s highest court, responded positively on Friday 31 July to an appeal by the NGO Friends of the Irish Environment that the Irish government’s plan to mitigate the country’s carbon emissions is not in line with its legislative remit under the country’s Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act of 2015.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank Clarke has indeed concluded that the plan “falls well short of the level of specificity required to...