Cork Walks

Ireland is one of only two countries (the other being Urgenda in the Netherlands) to see a successful challenge to government climate policy in the courts. In a groundbreaking judgment in the case taken by Friends of the Irish Environment delivered on the 31st of July 2020, seven Supreme Court judges unanimously found that the 2017 National Mitigation Plan falls ‘well short’ of the specificity that would be required to comply with the 2015 Climate Act. The Court quashed the existing 2017 National Mitigation Plan, which will now require the government to formulate a new plan that covers the full period remaining to 2050.

We are delighted to be joined by Dr. Andrew Jackson on behalf of the FIE legal team for a unique opportunity to tease out the implications of this landmark judgment in our next webinar on Wednesday the 9th of September at 5pm. We will have an opportunity to hear how the case was argued, and his analysis of the Supreme Court judgment and what it means for Irish climate policy and the new climate amendment bill promised by the government within 100 days.

This event is at 5pm Irish Summer Time Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Can you join me? Click here for details and to RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/climate-case-implications?source=email&
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