3/13/2024 3:36:38 PM Belgian farmer and activist NGOs start climate litigation case against oil and gas major in Belgium By Guillaume Croisant Bruno Garcia Da Silva A Belgian farmer, supported by three NGOs, announced today (13 March 2024) his intention to sue an oil and gas major before the Belgian...
2/28/2024 12:59:22 PM Belgium introduces the offence of ecocide By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant On 22 February 2024, Belgium’s Federal Parliament introduced the new offence of ecocide as part of the reform of the Belgian criminal...
2/13/2024 3:30:07 PM ESG Legal Outlook 2024: key themes in Europe By Julia Voskoboinikova In 2024, Europe is poised to enter a challenging phase where companies will start to implement the new mandatory sustainability reporting...
2/2/2024 3:03:00 PM ESG Disputes Bulletin – January 2024 By Satindar Dogra Rebecca James David Thomas Tara Janus Matt Dodd Rebecca Burton +3 more... Show less Welcome to the quarterly Linklaters ESG Disputes Bulletin. In this edition, we cover some of the key developments in contentious ESG...
12/4/2023 6:10:00 PM Brussels Court of Appeal condemns the Belgian State and two of the country’s Regions for climate inaction By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant On 30 November 2023, in a new episode of the climate change litigation saga, the Brussels Court of Appeal released a landmark decision...
10/9/2023 2:00:44 PM European Court of Human Rights and Labour Court of Brussels grant protection to whistle-blowers beyond the EU legal framework By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Nele Van Kerrebroeck Jennifer Granado Aranzana Gert-Jan Hendrix +1 more... Show less The EU Whistleblowing Directive and the implementing Belgian Whistleblowing Act (FR/NL) have generally been hailed as innovative and big...
2/17/2022 6:12:38 PM Does the ECB’s quantitative easing programme fuel climate change? NGO ClientEarth goes back to court after the dismissal of its claims By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer As we reported in a previous post, the NGO ClientEarth filed on 13 April 2021 a landmark legal action in Belgium against the National...