Irish Supreme Court quashes climate mitigation plan: environmental rights caught between redundancy and vagueness
Christopher Borucki, Pieter Gillaerts and Francoise Auvray - 21st September 2020
On 31 July 2020, the Irish Supreme Court annulled the government’s climate mitigation plan. A grand chamber of – exceptionally – seven judges ruled unanimously that the plan did not meet the legal requirements of the Irish climate legislation. Ireland is the second country after the Netherlands where the Supreme Court ruled on a climate […]