If you’ve been following Friends of the Earth for a while, you’ll know that achieving this important win is many years in the making.
This is actually the second time we’ve teamed up with ClientEarth and Good Law Project to defeat the government’s climate plan in court.
We won last time too. But after the government responded with yet another weak plan we weren’t going to let them off the hook. So with the help of donors, we took them to court again.
But this story goes even further back than that – over 15 years. The reason we were able to take the government to court in the first place was because of the Climate Change Act, which sets legally binding targets for the UK to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
And the reason the Climate Change Act exists is because Friends of the Earth and supporters like you campaigned for it back in the 2000s.
So please do celebrate today’s historic news. However long you’ve been with us, your support is making a difference. We believe the court’s decision now gives us a much stronger basis to demand effective climate action from this and the next government, whoever it is.
And if you want to play an even bigger role in this long-running fight for the future of our planet, please consider setting up a monthly donation today.