THE government suffered another embarrassing defeat at the High Court today over its climate change decision-making.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero acted unlawfully when approving its plan to meet targets running until 2037 as part of a strategy to achieve net zero by 2050, the court ruled.

Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project brought the case, arguing that then secretary of state Grant Shapps lacked the necessary information on whether individual policies could be delivered in full when he approved the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP) in March 2023.