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The future of nature depends on you. As humans, we rely on the natural world every day for nourishment, medicine and a stable environment to live in. But, we are losing nature at the fastest rate in history. Large corporations are destroying our natural world, and governments aren’t doing enough to protect it. We advocate for stronger laws for climate and nature, protect precious ecosystems from profit-driven companies and work with communities, ensuring they have the legal tools to defend their natural resources. And we can’t do it without you. Join the legal fight for nature. Donate today 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekJ9HffV

⚠️Major blow for transparency and ocean health: the Court of Justice of the EU has just ruled that key information on how EU fisheries rules are implemented by EU countries can remain confidential. Our senior lawyer Anne Friel said: “We are very disappointed by this judgment, which highlights that people and NGOs are being deprived of their very basic rights – knowing whether Member States are actually complying with the laws that exist to protect them and the environment, and what the Commission is doing about it. It means that illegal fishing can remain hidden and unpunished, and civil society is prevented from effectively participating in decision-making on the Common Fisheries Policy. Ultimately, it means the ocean remains vulnerable to abuse.” Read our reaction: https://lnkd.in/eyESwiCh

The UK will end all coal production by October this year, one year earlier than planned. It is part of an ambitious plan to transition the country to renewables and decarbonise the power sector by 2050.

BREAKING⚠️ 1/5 of Brussels schools are exposed to harmful levels of air pollution, a new analysis of Les chercheurs d'air found. Meanwhile, Brussels politicians want to postpone meaningful action on toxic air - by delaying stricter Low Emission Zones standards by another 2 years. Brussels residents have struggled for a long time with air pollution, which threatens their health. We even took the authorities to court over this in 2022. We're shocked and disappointed by this proposed step backwards. Read more at https://lnkd.in/eNd9g3vF

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Are you working on the new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and want to learn more about its climate and environmental provisions? We are publishing the ultimate legal CSDDD analysis - it unpacks every single environmental element of the directive - National governments can use it to unlock its potential in the next two years. To get a taste of this 90-page analysis, join our webinar on Tuesday 24th September, co-hosted with Responsible Companies, Frank Bold! Lawyers, business and sustainability experts will: 🔎Present the results of our legal analysis and key recommendations for transposition   🔎Discuss potential challenges ahead and best practices to implement environmental due diligence across companies' value chain. ➡️Register for our CSDDD webinar today: https://lnkd.in/ggFH5rZi

"We must restore nature to avoid global catastrophe." Susan Muhamad, president of this year's biodiversity COP16, has said that just cutting carbon emissions will not prevent catastrophic global heating and that we must focus equally on restoring natural ecosystems. Muhamad said a main focus for the summit would be to raise political awareness for the natural world to keep humanity in safe planetary limits. "The other side of the coin is to restore nature and allow nature to take again its power over planet Earth so that we can really stabilise the climate."

⚖ The historic Swiss Seniors court win has been used in a legal appeal by a Polish citizen. ⚖   In 2021, we supported Polish citizen Małgorzata Górska and four other claimants in taking action against the Polish government for its inadequate response to climate change. We and Małgorzata are now bringing an appeal before the country’s Supreme Court. The appeal will be helped by the new legal leverage provided by the recent EU Court of Human Rights ruling in favour of a group of Swiss seniors, who took their government to court over climate inaction.   The case successfully argued that the Swiss senior women’s right to private and family life was being violated due to their government’s lack of ambitious national climate action, a claim also being made by Górska. “My life and my agricultural enterprise have been affected by a dramatically changing climate. By now, this is true for everyone on the planet. Since I started my first case back in 2021, the consequences of climate change have become even more dramatic, across the world. I turned to the courts because it is time for change and politicians must be compelled to. Climate justice trailblazers have been such an inspiration to me – and I’m proud to follow in their footsteps.” Małgorzata Górska Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/enkECJSu

Why is biodiversity so important? Without biodiversity, our entire support system for human, as well as animal life, would collapse. We rely on nature to provide us with food and clean water, for a lot of medicines, and to prevent flooding and other extreme weather effects. This is why we must not just stop the nature crisis, but restore nature too. We need to do so for nature itself, but also for resilience. Areas like peatlands and wetlands store carbon, therefore it’s incredibly important that we restore them so that they can help us tackle climate change. It’s not enough for us to stop destroying nature, we must restore it. Find out more:

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