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The UK will have to come up with a new strategy to reach net zero after a High Court judge ruled the existing plan was unlawful.
Last year the then energy secretary Grant Shapps signed off a strategy known as the sixth carbon budget – stating how the country would meet targets ahead of cutting carbon emissions to net zero in 2050.
The Government's plan to deliver the cuts details policies in a large number of areas, including targets for the sale of electric cars, the installation of heat pumps and even how farmers spread manure on the ground.
But Mr Justice Sheldon ruled Mr Shapps was 'mistaken' in submitting the plan because it assumed the policies would be delivered in full.
Last year the then energy secretary Grant Shapps (pictured) signed off a strategy known as the sixth carbon budget – stating how the country would meet targets ahead of cutting carbon emissions to net zero in 2050
