ClientEarth shortlisted for awards
We are honoured to be nominated for three awards this summer at the Observer Ethical Awards and the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.
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Sustainable Seafood Coalition
Those of you familiar with our work to help protect the oceans will know we’ve been working with some of the UK’s top businesses to try to improve the sustainability of seafood products. Well, we've got news.
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Launch of European Environmental Law Observatory
Those interested in access to justice and information would find our European Union Aarhus Centre a useful resource. Up until now people have been able to keep up with its work via the Aarhus Newsletter.
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Supreme Court hears our case on UK’s illegal air pollution
The Supreme Court has heard our case against the Government for failing to meet legal limits for air quality.
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ClientEarth Poland Power
We started 2013 with excellent news from Poland. After two years of our work, the French energy company GDF Suez has withdrawn its environmental impact assessment application for the coal-fired power station at Łęczna and the local authority has closed the case.
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ClientEarth on Fish Fight
Did you watch the new series of Fish Fight on Channel 4? Yet again, Hugh and the team shone a much needed light on the devastation faced by our seas.
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Chemical safety must REACH further
Six years after the REACH Regulation was adopted by the European Union, the Commission has published its review of the chemical safety guidelines. The REACH Regulation was put in place to protect the environment and people’s health from dangerous chemicals. Together with the European Environmental Bureau we published a report in October which strongly criticised the European Chemicals Agency’s role in implementing chemical safety through the REACH Regulation.
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We sue Commission over EU biomass review
Together with Stichting BirdLife Europe we sued the European Commission today over their failure to publish their examination of controversial biomass emissions. Due for release last September, the literature review of the “carbon debt” of bioenergy from biomass remains unpublished, despite the growing importance of biomass in an evolving EU energy portfolio. This is part of a larger debate on biomass, as the Commission hasn’t yet proposed rules to ensure bioenergy from biomass is sustainable.
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Polish NGOs support ClientEarth
In a letter to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, H.E. Mr Donald Tusk, members of Polish civil society have supported ClientEarth following Treasury Minister Mr Budzanowski’s claims that ClientEarth “acts against the interests of the State...”.
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New look for our HotAir blog!
We recently launched the new look HotAir blog, designed to make it a lot easier to find out all about what we at ClientEarth are working on as well as environmental news from around the world. You can search for information based on topic or person and look at guest blogs from our friends in the sector. You can learn about our legal approaches to protecting the environment by visiting our blog Hot Air.
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Victory in the Supreme Court
One month ago, the UK Supreme Court declared that the Government is failing in its legal duty to protect people from the harmful effects of air pollution. Now we're taking the fight to Europe and we need your support.
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The March of the Beekeepers
On Friday 26th April, we’re very pleased to give our support to The March of the Beekeepers.
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Bees in the Daily Telegraph
Our CEO James Thornton has signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph calling on Government to support the European Commission in restricting the use of pesticides which kill bees.
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Congo close to forest protection accord
Congo takes a step closer to finalising an anti-illegal logging Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union.
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Supreme Court will hear our air pollution case against UK government
Our case against the UK Government for failing to comply with EU air pollution law will be heard by the Supreme Court on 7th March 2013. |
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James named as one of the UK's top 100 lawyers
Our CEO James Thornton has been voted one of the UK's top 100 lawyers by The Lawyer magazine.
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MEPs vote for an end to overfishing
The European Parliament voted on the European Commission’s proposal on Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform today. Almost three years' worth of work from our biodiversity team we were in Strasbourg to see it happen.
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The ultimate ‘win-win’ environmental policy for the UK government
Back in February we gave evidence to the UK Parliament for its enquiry into protecting the Arctic. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has now published its report – their findings on the speed of Arctic warming make for terrifying reading. However, as our evidence showed, not beyond hope.
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Misunderstanding could cause fisheries failure
Europe’s fisheries will continue to face overexploitation after the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform unless sustainable fishing becomes a binding requirement. However, such a requirement will only become binding if the often complex and technical language in the reform is fully understood and worded well by the parliamentarians voting it through.
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European Commission attempts to block citizens’ rights in the courts
Earlier this year we got together with Justice and Environment and officially requested the European Commission drop its appeal against two decisions by the General Court. The Court has found that EU law violates an international agreement allowing citizens to challenge the environmental decisions of the EU institutions. Find out why we think it's important the Commission opens its doors to more democratic decision-making.
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