UK one of 32 countries facing European court action over climate stance

Six Portuguese young people claim inadequate policies to tackle global heating breach their human rights Europe live - latest updates A key plank of the UK government's defence against the biggest climate legal action in the world next week has fallen away as a result of the U-turn by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on green policies. The UK is one of 32 countries being taken to the European court of human rights on Wednesday by a group of Portuguese young people. They will argue in the grand c...