A court in the United Kingdom has ruled that plans for a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport are illegal because they don’t address the impact of climate change.

The ruling could influence decisions on infrastructure projects around the world.

Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Damian Carrington (@dpcarrington), an environment editor at The Guardian.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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