5/23/2025 10:06:17 AM Council of Europe adopts first international convention on protection of environment through criminal law By Guillaume Croisant Pierre-Noé Milcamps On 14 May 2025, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted a groundbreaking Convention on the Protection of the Environment...
1/16/2025 3:25:06 AM ESG Legal Outlook 2025: key Asia themes By Gilly Hutchinson Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova We have published our ESG Legal Outlook 2025 highlighting the key global themes set to shape the legal landscape for ESG in the coming...
1/15/2025 2:18:40 PM ESG Legal Outlook 2025: key global themes By Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova Gilly Hutchinson We have published our ESG Legal Outlook 2025 highlighting the key global themes set to shape the legal landscape for ESG in the coming...
9/20/2024 10:07:15 AM ECB stresses the legal implication of nature-related risks for financial institutions and their supervisors By Guillaume Croisant Sacha Vanderveken Pierre-Noé Milcamps Mr Frank Elderson, a Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), delivered...
6/21/2024 11:56:12 AM Unlocking New Legal Avenues: Dutch Court paves the way for preliminary relief in climate enforcement litigation By Bas van Niekerk Gerard Meijer Thomas de Boer In the spring of 2024, Greenpeace initiated preliminary relief proceedings against the Dutch State regarding the Dutch State’s nitrogen...
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...
9/22/2023 9:53:28 AM UK High Court dismisses environmental judicial review challenge to gas storage project By Sophia Kaiko Tara Janus The High Court in Northern Ireland has dismissed a judicial review made on behalf of No Gas Caverns Ltd and Friends of the Earth in...
2/28/2023 2:23:26 PM French NGOs take BNP Paribas to court for its support of fossil fuel projects By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva On 23 February 2023, three NGOs, Oxfam France, Friends of the Earth France and Notre Affaire à Tous (the “NGOs”), announced the start of...