We celebrate the diversity of life and human experience. We recognise the equal right of all humankind to live and work in a healthy environment. Environmental law has come into being over the last forty years to express this right and mould it into enforceable obligations.
Our right to a healthy environment is still in its infancy and still fragile. Like all fundamental human rights – including those to liberty and free speech – it must be given expression in legislation and vigorously defended to develop fully.
We work for the Earth and all who sail upon her.
Our Principles
We are lawyers working for people and their environment. Our legal teams are interdisciplinary including scientists, economists and policy experts.
We work with green groups, academics and the leading edge of industry and governments.
We view law as a tool for positive social change.
We work on laws throughout their lifetime, from their conception through to legislation and implementation. And we work to enforce laws when governments fail to do so.
When focusing on the European Union, we see individual Member States as laboratories where we can innovate ideas to move through the whole EU and beyond.
We are proactive, helping to create the legal initiatives needed to move people and natural systems into greater resilience both in the developed and developing world.
We take a long term view—focusing not only on the year or two it takes to get laws passed but on the decade or two it takes for laws to make a difference on the ground. |
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