{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Proposals and policies: targets",
  "text": "(1) Climate action plans must contain targets to be achieved during the relevant budgetary period in the following areas—\n(a) soil quality, and\n(b) biodiversity;\nbut these targets are subject to subsection (2) of this section.\n(2) Targets under subsection (1) must be set in a way best calculated to achieve the relevant carbon budget after taking the following matters into account—\n(a) international law, including, in particular, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;\n(b) the impact of such targets on the environment of Northern Ireland;\n(c) the impact of such targets on public health and well-being;\n(d) the impact of such targets on fiscal, economic and social circumstances specific to Northern Ireland;\n(e) the just transition principle;\n(f) the transboundary impact.\n(3) Climate action plans must also include annual targets on—\n(a) greenhouse gas emissions, and\n(b) air quality.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 in operation at 7.6.2022, see s. 64"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/31/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:11.373503+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}