A day after hearing the first petition in Israel against the state’s climate policy, the High Court of Justice ordered the government on Tuesday to define and explain its minimum target for cutting global warming emissions, to detail what steps it was taking to reduce those emissions, and to explain what was happening with its climate bill.

The court set a June 26 deadline for responses from the government and the environmental protection, energy and health ministers.

On Monday, three High Court justices heard a petition submitted by two green organizations, Green Course and Youth for Climate, calling for an interim injunction to compel the government to explain why its 2030 emissions-cut target is 27 percent rather than 43%, as set by the UN to cap rising global temperatures.

The Sixth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued in 2022, called for a global 43% cut in emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases helping to drive climate change in order to implement the Paris agreement, which seeks to cap global warming at 2 degrees........

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