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It’s Time to Recognise the Right to a Healthy Environment
In September and October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Committee will meet for its 48th Regular Session (HRC48). Its agenda is a full one: in the last year, the impacts of the pandemic, a...
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Protecting Future Generations: A Global Survey of Legal Academics and...
Review of Legal Priorities Project Working Paper Series No. 1-2021 by Eric Martinez & Christoph Winter A recent study by Eric Martinez and Christoph Winter surveyed over 500 legal academics...
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Taking the World Lawyers’ Climate Pledge to the UK Supreme Court
In June 2018, the UK Government already knew. It knew that expanding Heathrow Airport would result in the carbon dioxide emissions just from UK aviation rising to around 40,000,000 tonnes per year by...
View ArticleIntroducing the first German Climate Clinic
While the law is a crucial instrument for governing the (fast and just) transition to climate neutrality, it currently often hinders meaningful climate action. Members of Fridays for Future Germany...
View ArticleHistoric Milestone in Ecuador: Constitutional Court Recognizes Individual...
On February 4, 2022, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador issued its ruling in the case of Estrellita, a woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) who had lived with a human family since she was one month...
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Australian Federal Court sees enormous climate risk but says it cannot act
In late 2020, a group of eight brave children led by Anj Sharma commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australia’s Federal Environment Minister. The proceedings aimed to...
View ArticleImplementing Net Zero through Climate Contract Clauses
By Leonie Brabant and Jenni Ramos Postponing transformational climate action is not an option. Contracts govern much of human activity across every sector of the economy and are the swiftest mechanism...
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The Carbon Handprint of the Lawyer
By Jeanette Baumann Lawyers play a crucial part in building and defining the framework of environmental action — they advise, communicate, represent, conduct research and analysis, prepare legal...
View ArticleLandmark Decision Provides Catalyst for Climate Justice in the Philippines
By Atty. Grizelda Mayo-Anda Typhoon survivors, advocates, and the Greenpeace network celebrated a huge victory after the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR) released a ground-breaking...
View ArticleLegal Gaps for Carbon Removal
By Dr. Snjólaug Árnadóttir The climate crisis unveils legal gaps and inequitable outcomes of existing laws. Proposed projects which attempt to prevent and mitigate the impacts of climate change often...
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