Students for Climate Solutions v Minister of Energy and Resources Pays/Territoire Nouvelle-Zélande Date Avr 29, 2024 Source UNEP, InforMEA Nom du tribunal High Court of New Zealand Résumé On November 9, 2021 a group of law students sued the New Zealand Minister for Energy and Resources, challenging the Minister's June 2021 decision to grant permits for onshore oil and gas exploration. The students seek a judicial review of the permitting decision. The students claim the minister's June 2021 decision to issue exploration permits in the Taranaki area is inconsistent with the government’s legal obligations under the country’s Zero Carbon Act and the Paris agreement and that she failed to consider key facts like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent warnings about climate change’s severity. In 2018, the government banned new offshore exploration for oil and gas reserves and in 2020 it declared New Zealand was facing a climate emergency. However it has allowed energy companies to continue to apply for permits for onshore oil and gas exploration.Key environmental legal questions:Whether decision to grant permits for oil and gas exploration was unlawful. Texte intégral climatecasechart.com