The Global Warming Policy Foundation said DECC may have acted unlawfully by legislating the fifth carbon budget.
The right-wing think-tank said the budget’s impact assessment is based on the now incorrect assumption that the UK will still be in the EU by 2030, active in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and covered by the EU’s Paris Agreement terms.
In a statement, the GWPF said: “It is our view that the government has behaved unreasonably, and should have delayed approval of the budget and reassessed the impacts in the light of the far-reaching changes flowing from the referendum result.”
The organisation called on Prime Minister David Cameron to review the decision to pass the budget “as a matter of priority”.
“The hasty, rubber-stamping of a budget designed for very different circumstances is dangerous in itself and may be unlawful,” it added.
Image: GWPF chair Lord Lawson (Wikimedia Commons)
