For the Luminous Festival, James Thornton and members of ClientEarth discuss the relationship between the environment and law at a forum hosted by Brian Eno.
The Evening Standard's Ross Lydall has used his blog to follow up his article about our warning to Boris Johnson about his risk of judicial review: a "strangely muted response from the mayor's office".
Evening Standard reports on our letter to Mayor Johnson
The Evening Standard has reported on our letter to Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. We wrote to the mayor warning him that his comments pre-empting a public consultation on scrapping the congestion charging zone's western extension could prejudice the results.
The Ecologist has published a story focusing on our efforts to see the Aarhus Convention - the 'people's law on the environment' - complied with in the UK.
ClientEarth CEO James Thornton spoke about the law's role in protecting the environment in interview with the magazine of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.
ClientEarth's recently launched CleanAir campaign caught the attention of the Daily Telegraph environmental commentator Geoffrey Lean this week. Through our campaign we are working to ensure that the UK complies in full with EU laws on air pollution in London in time for the 2012 Olympics.
A new report in the Ecologist focused on the need for people to change their innermost perspectives on climate change as well as their outward actions. ClientEarth CEO James Thornton was asked for his thoughts.
Does nature have rights? Can lawyers save the world?
The cover of the June 2007 edition of the Ecologist magazine featured an article by our CEO, James Thornton, outlining the case for using legal means to find solutions to environmental challenges. The people at the Ecologist report it went down a storm with the young folks who read it at that year's Glastonbury Festival.
In its July edition, the Ecologist magazine has identified ClientEarth as one of 101 organisations and individuals that have provided their team with information and inspiration while it has been in print. The magazine is using the feature to mark its move to exclusively online publication.
Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, ClientEarth CEO James Thornton argues for a positive response to climate change. He suggests that environmental changes require a fundamental shift in the way we exist in the world, of a scale comparable to that experienced in the Renaissance.
James Thornton expands upon his world-view and the stance taken by ClientEarth when addressing environmental concerns through legal pressure with Sydney Morning Herald.
James Thornton and Brian Eno made an appearance on ABC's Late Night Live show with Phillip Adams, discussing the challenges to be addressed in creating and enforcing environmental legislation.
As Brian Eno's Luminous festival got underway in Sydney he explained that he hoped the event might help to change the way people think and create. One of the main intentions of the festival was to encourage debate about ways of addressing global warming, bringing together disparate cultures and governments to forge common solutions. Brian told ABC News about ClientEarth's efforts to make governments observe good environmental laws.
The forthcoming Government framework for the development of clean coal power will only realise its full potential if it is based on a strategic environmental assessment, ClientEarth believes. Writing for ENDS Europe, lawyer Karla Hill explains how a framework founded on an SEA could see power station CO2 emissions cut by 90%.
