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原文传递 'Policy refresh needed' in era of climate litigation

题名：	'Policy refresh needed' in era of climate litigation
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Dominic Browne
摘要：	The transport sector is facing an era of increasing legal threats and scrutiny as a result of climate change, lawyers and campaigners have warned. The analysis comes as Highways reveals a snapshot of the rising legal costs paid by transport authorities in the UK over the last five years (see p19-20). Public sector bodies face legal action from across a range of areas including from judicial review challenges to Highways England schemes. Notably, Transport Action Network has brought a case against Highways England's second Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2) on the grounds that it does not meet the UK's obligations to reduce carbon emissions Head of infrastructure planning and government affairs at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, Robbie Owen, told Highways: 'There is no doubt the significant increase in climate change litigation over the last two or three years has affected transport just as it has other sectors, particularly energy. As we await the Government's Transport Decarbonisation Plan later this year a further judicial review of policy has just been launched, of the Government's decision not to review the National Networks National Policy Statement. 'This, along with the RIS 2 legal challenge and challenges to planning decisions on several individual projects, compounds the feeling that transport programmes and projects are saddled with having to apply policies that seem outdated and that a policy refresh is urgently needed if further claims and so delays are to be avoided.'
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	Highways
卷：	90
期：	4