With climate change taking over the political and cultural agendas, we discuss two cases in which the courts got involved in the debate. The first is the recent UK decision which found that the British Government had broken the law in its plans for Heathrow's third runway. The second case, relating to Dublin Airport's new runway, discovered a constitutional right to an environment. Alex, Pierce and Gavin mused the power of judges and whether it is appropriate for them to have input into political questions such as the response to global warming.

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