Climate Campaigners Launch Legal Challenge to ‘Catastrophic’ Government Recovery Package

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Climate activists are planning to take the government to court over its COVID-19 bailout package, as they urge the UK to face up to its responsibility to tackle climate change.

Plan B, a climate litigation charity, says Boris Johnson vowed his government would “build back greener” but is instead using billions of pounds of public money to prop up fossil fuel corporations without financing a transition to a clean and sustainable economy.