Dec 02, 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...
Nov 02, 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...
Oct 03, 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...
Jun 30, 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...
Feb 17, 2022 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...
Jan 26, 2022 Belgium on its way to implementing EU Conflict Minerals Regulation By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation (the “CMR”), formally Regulation 2017/821 of 17 May 2017 laying down supply chain due diligence...
Jan 17, 2022 European Commission proposes new directive to crack down on environmental crime By Guillaume Croisant Melissa Verplancke Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva +1 more... Show less On 15 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal (the “Proposal”) for a directive on the protection of...
Jan 17, 2022 Belgian Parliament votes in favour of recognition of crime of ecocide at national and international levels By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Jean-Charles Jaïs +1 more... Show less On 2 December 2021, the Belgian Federal Parliament (Chambre des représentants / Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers) adopted by a large...