24 Jan, 2024 Paris court rejects NGOs’ request to order the French state to take additional measures to repair ecological damage caused by carbon emissions By Eleonore Hannezo Claudia Cavicchioli Charlotte Peiffer On 22 December 2023, the Administrative Court of Paris (“the Court”) issued another significant decision in what has been called the...
07 Dec, 2023 Revised Industrial Emissions Directive: EU institutions reach political agreement By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer On 29 November 2023, the EU Parliament and Council finally reached a political agreement on the Commission’s proposal (the “Proposal”)...
18 Apr, 2023 UN adopts landmark resolution to clarify States' legal obligations with respect to climate change By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Gabi Benavides Akshay Sewlikar Gilly Hutchinson +2 more... Show less On 29 March 2023, the Pacific nation of Vanuatu (Vanuatu) successfully spearheaded a resolution which, following adoption by consensus by...
28 Feb, 2023 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...
02 Dec, 2022 NGO ClientEarth withdraws lawsuit against ECB’s quantitative easing programme By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva As we reported in our previous posts (here and here), ClientEarth filed in April 2021 legal proceedings in Belgium against the central...
02 Nov, 2022 BNP Paribas on formal notice to stop supporting the development of fossil fuel projects By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer On 26 October 2022, NGOs Oxfam France, Friends of the Earth France and Notre Affaire à Tous formally put the BNP Paribas group (the...
03 Oct, 2022 Paris and New York join lawsuit against TotalEnergies over “climate inaction” By Charlotte Peiffer Guillaume Croisant In January 2020, five French NGOs (Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, Zéa, Eco Maires, France Nature Environnement) and more than a dozen...
30 Jun, 2022 European Commission proposal reverses onus of proof in favour of victims for certain pollution lawsuits By Lieve Swartenbroux Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer On 5 April 2022, the European Commission released a proposal for a directive amending Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions ("the...