13 Sept 2023
LAWYERS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION NZ INC v CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION [2023] NZCA 443
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 443
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The application to adduce the IPCC and MfE reports was refused because the reports post‑dated the Commission's advice and therefore were not cogent or materially relevant to the judicial review grounds confined to the information available to the Commission at the time; the MfE report could not affect the legal question whether the Act mandates a particular accounting methodology and the IPCC updates did not alter the parties' acceptance of the underlying climate science.