Heathrow airport expansion ruled illegal on climate change grounds bit.ly/2PtHuAx 
The Court of Appeal ruled that the decision to build a third runway was illegal because it failed to consider the Paris climate agreement goal to hold global temperature rises to 1.5°C #Heathrow
Aviation is so bad for the climate because the condensation trails left by aeroplanes have a much greater warming effect that the carbon dioxide they release newscientist.com/article/220788…
To meet the Paris goal, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a staggering 7.6 per cent every year for the next decade newscientist.com/article/222453…
The government has confirmed it will not appeal against the court verdict.
