Court orders UK government to explain how net zero policies will reach targets

Green activists brought challenge, arguing climate change strategy did not spell out how carbon emissions cuts would be achieved

The high court has ordered the government to outline exactly how its net zero policies will achieve emissions targets, after a legal challenge from environmental groups.

Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project had all taken legal action over the government's flagship climate change strategy, arguing it had illegally failed to include the policies it needed to deliver the promised emissions cuts.