Crisis Era

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The Road construction in the last decades was subject to less strict environmental criteria

plans for a £28. 8bn-Road program could be questioned in the courts for the violation of the British laws on Climate Change .

The plans that are published should not be learned in the next month, taken into account the commitments to reduce emissions from the BBC.

you are probably guards against legal challenges from The Environment .

On Thursday a court had decided that the plans for the expansion of Heathrow had not the climate policy are taken into account.

What are the plans?

The Prime Minister has promised many New Roads , which concentrated expenditure on the infrastructure in the North of England.

But it is the officials, the decisions on the roads are worth the money and should go-ahead.

you should weigh the advantages of a proposed Road - for example, how much time the driver will save, if it is Built - against the disadvantages, including the potential for an increase in carbon emissions.

What is the problem?

The current " value-for-money assessment was carried out according to the guidelines, last updated in April of 2019, when the UK plans to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050.

But two months later was charged the goal, committing the UK to cut nearly 100% of the emissions by the same date.

Bbc News has learned that the guidelines updated yet to take account of the more stringent objectives.

The lack of up-to-date guidelines means that Some of the climate-damaging Road construction projects can be approved, if, under the new climate protection laws, they should be rejected.

A pressure group, Transport Action Network, says that his studies show, Some of the Road projects proceed, even if they are shown, an increase in emissions, while other systems do not include all of the data to potential carbon dioxide emissions.

"The whole system needs to be urgently reviewed. The reviews were in a pre-climate-Crisis Era . You do not take into account the UK's commitment to net-Zero emissions," said the spokeswoman, Becca Lush.

The Group is now considering legal action against the government.

What it has to do with Heathrow?

The streets of the assessment is closely linked to Thursday the verdict on Heathrow.

the judge said the former transport Secretary Chris Grayling should have taken into account the latest commitments in relation to Climate Change , to expand before it the permission granted for Heathrow, throws The Project into Doubt .

environmentalists celebrated the ruling against Heathrow expansion-plans

the air travel is a notoriously polluting sector, but The Debate over cars is less clear.

The government hopes that the technical innovations in the Form of electric-and hydrogen cars will allow to be current or even increased mobility, free of carbon by 2050.

His critics Doubt The Clean car revolution to happen quickly enough to prevent emissions of injury climate-laws.

they warn also needed about the environmental effects of mining, and the manufacture, the battery of the cars, and the unavoidable burden from fine dust is generated by the tires and brakes.

the new streets will be blocked?

The treasure chamber was to deliver under the pressure to run a huge infrastructure package in addition to the budget in March .

the Future of the Road , is said to be the British harder commitment to The Environment

A source, the guidelines for the assessment of have been continuously improved, but would not say whether they had accounted for The Net -zero goal.

Josh Burke of the London School of Economics, said if the government does not keep the guide up-to-date, the danger is that "locking-go ahead in the heavily-polluting forms of transportation" that should not be too technical, there is.

Stephen Joseph , visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, said: "It is very likely that the government will face further legal challenges if it Goes Ahead with the Road to spend without you is considered correct, the implications for net-zero climate emissions. "

Some authorities are already taking a net-zero-emissions are taken into account. The Welsh Government has recently a planned relief Road round Newport to be scrapped, partly for environmental reasons. And North Devon Council has the planned expansion of Bristol Airport stopped, as it is not compatible with net-zero emissions.

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Source of news: bbc.com