Former minister: courts likely to hold government to account on climate policy
Alex White says judicial review has expanded hugely in recent decades after co-writing paper on impact of climate litigation across globe
The courts will increasingly become a forum for holding the Irish government to account on climate policy, according to a former minister for energy and natural resources.
Alex White, a former Labour TD who has returned to his work as a senior counsel, was speaking following the publication of a new paper examining the impact of climate litigation across the globe.
White co-authored the report with Luke O’Callaghan-White, senior researcher with the Institute for International ...
