Legal challenge over UK's exclusion of incinerators from emissions target

Campaigner says decision at odds with Paris agreement to achieve net zero by 2050

An environmental campaigner is mounting a legal challenge to the government's decision to exclude waste incinerators from its post-Brexit carbon emissions trading scheme designed to bring the UK to net zero emissions by 2050.

Georgia Elliott-Smith, a sustainability consultant who is fighting the expansion of the Edmonton incinerator, is seeking a judicial review of the omission of what legal papers say are staggering" levels of CO2 emissions from waste incinerators.