The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 1 WLR 2011
Court of Appeal
*Rex (Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for International Trade and another
[2023] EWCA Civ 14
2022 Dec 6, 7, 8; 2023 Jan 13
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Bean LJ, Sir Keith Lindblom SPT
Environment— Protection— Climate change— Government funding liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique— Whether decision to fund project contravening government’s obligations under Paris Agreement on Climate Change— Correct approach to United Kingdom’s obligations under unincorporated treaty—
Paris Agreement on Climate Change (2016), art 2(1)(c)