{"id":2880,"date":"2023-05-09T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2023-05-09T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:34:14","slug":"the-government-was-taken-to-court-for-ignoring-the-ets-climate-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/09\/the-government-was-taken-to-court-for-ignoring-the-ets-climate-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"The government went to court for ignoring the climate commission on the ETS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span>A group of activist lawyers has launched a major new legal action against the government for acting against a Commission on Climate Change recommendation last year, Marc Daalder reports.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The High Court was asked to overturn the government&#039;s decision to artificially lower the price of carbon because it went against the advice of the Commission on Climate Change.\u00a0<\/span><span>Climate lawyers behind previous major legal action against the government and the commission filed a new statement of claim on Tuesday, this time targeting climate change minister James Shaw. Lawyers for Climate Action (LCANZI) say Cabinet&#039;s decision to reject the Commission&#039;s recommendation on price controls in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has breached the requirements of the Zero Carbon Act.\u00a0<\/span><span>While Shaw recommended that the commission&#039;s settings be fully followed, the cabinet overruled him at a meeting in late November over concerns about the cost of living impact of a rising carbon price. As climate minister, it was ultimately Shaw&#039;s responsibility to implement the Cabinet decision. Under climate legislation, ETS price controls must be set in a way that is consistent with our emissions budgets and other climate targets. A derogation is permitted in certain circumstances, but a full explanation of the reasons for the discrepancies must be provided in the report to Parliament. <em>(Marc Daalder, Sustainablefuture)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of activist lawyers has filed a major new legal action against the government for acting against a recommendation from the Climate Change Commission last year, reports Marc Daalder. The Supreme Court has been asked to overturn the government\u2019s decision to artificially lower the price of carbon because it was contrary to a recommendation from the Climate Change Commission. The climate lawyers behind [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}