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Environmental litigation roundup 2024: UK Supreme Court on Scope 3 emissions and sewerage nuisance; judicial review on adaptation, principles and sludge; Green Deal finance; ECtHR KlimaSeniorinnen; Dutch Shell appeal

Published on: 19 December 2024

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2024 has seen lively action in the courts for environmental law, with two prominent Supreme Court judgments and further momentum in climate change litigation. We outline these headline cases, alongside other matters of note, in this. For wider coverage of environmental law in 2024 and what to anticipate in 2025, see News Analysis: Environmental law developments—end of year review 2024.

Climate change—application and enforcement of domestic climate obligations, including human rights (NAP3 challenge)

In R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2024] EWHC 2707 (Admin), the High Court examined a judicial review challenge to the third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) under the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA 2008). The court rejected the claim, holding that NAP3 is lawful. It concluded that the Secretary of State made no legal error when interpreting the requirement for ‘objectives’ in CCA 2008, s 58(1)(a), confirming that such objectives may vary in their level of specificity and need not be framed as quantified or measurable outcomes...

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