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  Planning Bill - Policy must mitigate and adapt to Climate Change - rejected
  
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  The majority of the Lords voted against requiring the National Policy Statement[1] made by the Minister to "contribute to the mitigation of and to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change and to the achievement of sustainable development"[2]
  
  A similar vote was also lost in the House of Commons earlier in the year.[3]  This establishes the case that national planning policy need not take account of mitigation or adaptation to the challenge of climate change.
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldbills/084/08084.1-5.html#j123 National Policy Statements], Clause 5, Planning Bill
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2008-11-06a.362.5#g381.0 The Bishop of Liverpool], House of Lords, 6 November 2008
  * [3] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-06-02&number=206 Planning Bill - Consideration of climate change - rejected], House of Commons Division, 2 June 2008
  
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