A legal challenge against the Irish Government has been launched by a group of environmentalists who argue the government is failing to take necessary action to avoid dangerous climate change.
Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) announced on 23 October that it had field a lawsuit against the Government of Ireland and Ireland’s Attorney General. FIE claims this is the first such climate lawsuit to ever be filed in Ireland.
FIE’s lawsuit argues that the Irish National Mitigation Plan “does not do enough to reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions and is a violation of Ireland’s Climate Act, the Irish Constitution and human rights obligations.”
