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Car industry may have conspired to prevent people from breathing clean air

News / 19 September 2018

European Commission opens investigation into whether BMW, Daimler and VW colluded to avoid competition on the development and roll-out of technology to clean car emissions.

  • London traffic westminster

    Brexit documents highlight the holes for environment in no-deal scenario

    News / 14 September 2018

    Legal experts from environmental law charity ClientEarth warn that documents released yesterday detailing the government’s contingencies for a no-deal Brexit scenario reveal departments worryingly underprepared to maintain promised environmental protections.

  • Dr. Hermann Ott joins ClientEarth in Germany

    News / 13 September 2018

    Professor Dr. Hermann Ott has joined ClientEarth to oversee our operations in Germany and help drive our work using the law to protect people and the planet.

  • Beach, Baltic Sea

    ClientEarth moves to block construction of Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Sweden

    News / 12 September 2018

    ClientEarth has filed a complaint to Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court to halt the construction of a 510 kilometre-long section of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Swedish waters.

  • Pink plastic sand bucket on beach

    Plastic taxes vital to cut pollution, new study finds

    News / 10 September 2018

    The EU should consider an ambitious set of taxes on plastic in Europe to reduce the overall use in the economy, a new report has found.

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  • Hakim Aabbaoui, IT System Administrator, ClientEarth

    Hakim Aabbaoui

    IT System Administrator

  • Sebastian Bechtel, Environmental Democracy Lawyer, ClientEarth

    Sebastian Bechtel

    Environmental Democracy Lawyer

  • Alice Bernard

    Chemicals Lawyer/Juriste

  • Paloma Colmenarejo, Spanish Sustainable Seafood Project Coordinator

    Paloma Colmenarejo

    Spanish Sustainable Seafood Project Coordinator

  • Klaudija Cremers, Fisheries Lawyer, ClientEarth

    Klaudija Cremers

    Lawyer/Juriste, Fisheries

  • Emilie Debatty, Programme Assistant, Strategic Litigation, Environmental Lawyers ClientEarth

    Emilie Debatty

    Programme Assistant, Strategic Litigation

  • Juliette Delarue, State Aid Expert, Environmental Lawyers ClientEarth

    Juliette Delarue

    Lawyer/Juriste, Energy

  • Anne Friel, Lawyer, European Union Aarhus Centre, Environmental Lawyers ClientEarth

    Anne Friel

    Lawyer, Environmental Democracy

  • Lisa Jonet, Partners and Compliance Lawyer/Juriste, ClientEarth

    Lisa Jonet

    Partners and Compliance Lawyer/Juriste

  • Katie Miller

    Project Lead, Sustainable Seafood

  • Hermann Ott

    Head of Berlin office

  • Capucine Pineau, Project Coordinator, ClientEarth

    Capucine Pineau

    Environmental Democracy Project Coordinator

  • Maja Pravuljac

    Maja Pravuljac

    Intern, Trade and Environment

  • Valentin Raymond, Marine Policy Researcher, Fisheries, ClientEarth

    Valentin Raymond

    Marine Policy Researcher, Fisheries

  • Apolline Roger, Lawyer, ClientEarth

    Apolline Roger

    Law and Policy Advisor, Chemical Project Lead

  • Sabine Smith, Digital Communications Assistant , ClientEarth

    Sabine Smith

    Digital Communications Assistant

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    Flaminia Tacconi

    Lawyer/Juriste, European Fisheries, Biodiversity

  • Diane Vandesmet, Events and Communications officer, ClientEarth

    Diane Vandesmet

    Events and Communications Officer

  • Maria-Jolie Veder, Intern, EU Energy and Coal

    Maria-Jolie Veder

    Lawyer/Juriste, Energy

  • Bianca Vergnaud, Communications Officer, Strategic Litigation, Environmental Lawyers ClientEarth

    Bianca Vergnaud

    Communications Officer, Strategic Litigation

  • Agnieszka Warso-Buchanan

    Lawyer/Radca Prawny, Clean Air, Strategic Litigation

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