Fwd: 🚨 NEW CAMPAIGN CARBON RECKONING LAUNCHES TODAY 🚨

[Mair Perkins]

Please see a new legal challenge over UK carbon budgets launched today. 

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From: Andrew Boswell <andrew...@fastmail.co.uk>
Date: Thu, May 7, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Subject: 🚨 NEW CAMPAIGN CARBON RECKONING LAUNCHES TODAY 🚨

🚨 CARBON RECKONING LAUNCHES TODAY 🚨 

Today, new legal campaign Carbon Reckoning launches.   

Tell me more!  ... The UK Government must set key legislation for climate change action by the end of June 2026.  Called the Seventh Carbon Budget, it should by law set action consistent with the best available science and our international obligations.  There is substantive evidence to suggest it will fail to do this.  Carbon Reckoning aims to make the Government set a budget which does comply with the law.

After Greg Marsden's recent "Overshoot" shoot report that transport is eating up more and more of UK carbon budgets/plans, this legal project is even more important!

Please take a moment to read a quick summary of this new climate campaign, below the logo.  Or please go directly to the crowdfunder, also just launched, where there is more detail. 

Our campaign urgently needs funding to build a team of expert climate lawyers to develop the forensic legal arguments.  Please give what you can at the crowdfunder 👉 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-reckoning.  Your generosity and support for this vital legal work is much appreciated.

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-reckoning

The Carbon Reckoning campaign addresses two key issues:

The Science Problem

The Government's budget is benchmarked against a remaining global carbon budget calculated years ago. Scientists have since revised that figure significantly downward. The Climate Change Act 2008 requires budgets to reflect "significant developments in scientific knowledge." The proposed budget does not, and the UK therefore takes more than its fair share.

The new legal dimension

In July 2025, the International Court of Justice delivered a unanimous Advisory Opinion: states bear obligations of "highest possible ambition" to align mitigation measures with the 1.5°C limit (which we are passing this decade in any case).  Developed countries like the UK carry heightened responsibilities under the equity principles of the Paris Agreement. The UK's proposed budget has not been assessed against either standard since the opinion. 

Parliament is watching 

Following submissions from scientists and Carbon Reckoning, the cross-party  Environmental Audit Committee formally recommended the Government set out how the Seventh Carbon Budget aligns with the science and the Paris agreement.   Carbon Reckoning now aim to ensure that this genuinely happens.  

Carbon Reckoning

Carbon Reckoning is building a forensic legal challenge under the Climate Change Act to formally write to Government — setting out the failures and requiring them to be addressed — before the budget is fixed in law. This is distinct from, but complementary to, other recent climate litigation such as the two successful cases on the UK Climate plans: it focuses specifically on the adequacy of the overall budget level against current science and the ICJ Advisory Opinion, whereas those cases were on the adequacy of the policies, and its risk management, used to deliver it.

The window is short now. As awareness increases daily of the planetary and national emergency we are in, this case aims to put official climate policy and decision making under greater scrutiny against the science and international law. This matters too because the Government's statutory obligations should be enforced.

Please read more and donate if you can 🙏🙏  

👉 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-reckoning  

If you can spare more time, please forward this email to your contacts, or promote Carbon Reckoning posts on social media here:  

https://bsky.app/profile/drandrewboswell.bsky.social/post/3mlavcq23ms2m

https://x.com/i/status/2052323522064613727

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-boswell-5b241320_climatepolicy-climateaction-carbonreckoning-activity-7458091245974794240-HPi7

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FmuQuM8tC/

All the best, Andrew

for Carbon Reckoning (Andrew, James, Rebecca and Simon) 

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