ClientEarth
@clientearth.bsky.social
⚖️ We use the power of the law to protect people and the planet.
📍 London, Brussels, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Beijing, Los Angeles, Tokyo
🌍 www.clientearth.org
📍 London, Brussels, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Beijing, Los Angeles, Tokyo
🌍 www.clientearth.org
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💪🌳It’s been a big year in the fight to protect nature, and you've been with us all the way. 💚 👇
Donate to #HelpHabitatsHeal: donate.clientearth.org/page/113697/...
Donate to #HelpHabitatsHeal: donate.clientearth.org/page/113697/...
💪🌳It’s been a big year in the fight to protect nature, and you've been with us all the way. 💚 👇
Donate to #HelpHabitatsHeal: donate.clientearth.org/page/113697/...
Donate to #HelpHabitatsHeal: donate.clientearth.org/page/113697/...
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
💪🌳It’s been a big year in the fight to protect nature, and you've been with us all the way. 💚 👇
Donate to #HelpHabitatsHeal: donate.clientearth.org/page/113697/...
Donate to #HelpHabitatsHeal: donate.clientearth.org/page/113697/...
Coca-Cola has increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% (despite having promised to reduce it by 20% 🤫)
Coca-Cola is failing miserably when it comes to plastic reduction, new numbers from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation show. #greenwashing
content.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/m/21c4a4ffd7...
Coca-Cola is failing miserably when it comes to plastic reduction, new numbers from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation show. #greenwashing
content.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/m/21c4a4ffd7...
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Coca-Cola has increased its use of virgin plastic by 10% (despite having promised to reduce it by 20% 🤫)
Coca-Cola is failing miserably when it comes to plastic reduction, new numbers from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation show. #greenwashing
content.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/m/21c4a4ffd7...
Coca-Cola is failing miserably when it comes to plastic reduction, new numbers from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation show. #greenwashing
content.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/m/21c4a4ffd7...
Spain’s marine protected areas (MPAs) are still being decimated by bottom trawling.
We took legal action last year but Spain has issued more fishing licenses for bottom trawling inside these MPAs since then.
So we’re going back to court with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social to protect these zones.
We took legal action last year but Spain has issued more fishing licenses for bottom trawling inside these MPAs since then.
So we’re going back to court with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social to protect these zones.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Spain’s marine protected areas (MPAs) are still being decimated by bottom trawling.
We took legal action last year but Spain has issued more fishing licenses for bottom trawling inside these MPAs since then.
So we’re going back to court with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social to protect these zones.
We took legal action last year but Spain has issued more fishing licenses for bottom trawling inside these MPAs since then.
So we’re going back to court with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social to protect these zones.
👏Win for human rights👏
An Italian Court last week awarded compensation for damage caused by air pollution - the first time this has happened in the EU outside of France.
More here: en.ilsole24ore.com/art/roma-cap...
An Italian Court last week awarded compensation for damage caused by air pollution - the first time this has happened in the EU outside of France.
More here: en.ilsole24ore.com/art/roma-cap...
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
👏Win for human rights👏
An Italian Court last week awarded compensation for damage caused by air pollution - the first time this has happened in the EU outside of France.
More here: en.ilsole24ore.com/art/roma-cap...
An Italian Court last week awarded compensation for damage caused by air pollution - the first time this has happened in the EU outside of France.
More here: en.ilsole24ore.com/art/roma-cap...
💪Mining company BHP has been found liable by the UK's High Court for the 2015 #MarianaDam collapse in Brazil, which killed 19 people & caused the country’s worst environmental disaster.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted a river and destroyed hundreds of homes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
💪Mining company BHP has been found liable by the UK's High Court for the 2015 #MarianaDam collapse in Brazil, which killed 19 people & caused the country’s worst environmental disaster.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📢As the Aarhus Convention MOP kicks off next week, we're supporting this joint letter from 40+ NGOs to the UK PM, urging him to uphold the Convention for the good of environmental justice. 🧵
📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice
The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably
The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📢As the Aarhus Convention MOP kicks off next week, we're supporting this joint letter from 40+ NGOs to the UK PM, urging him to uphold the Convention for the good of environmental justice. 🧵
✈️ 21 airlines have agreed to change their #greenwashing marketing following the Court win we supported against KLM.
Airlines incl. Easyjet, Ryanair & Wizz Air committed to change their practices around environmental claims that were considered misleading by the CPC.
👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Airlines incl. Easyjet, Ryanair & Wizz Air committed to change their practices around environmental claims that were considered misleading by the CPC.
👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
✈️ 21 airlines have agreed to change their #greenwashing marketing following the Court win we supported against KLM.
Airlines incl. Easyjet, Ryanair & Wizz Air committed to change their practices around environmental claims that were considered misleading by the CPC.
👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Airlines incl. Easyjet, Ryanair & Wizz Air committed to change their practices around environmental claims that were considered misleading by the CPC.
👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
#COP30 begins - and we’re on the ground to demand real action:
- Tackle climate disinformation & protect information integrity
- Hold companies accountable across their supply chainss
- Turn climate pledges into law
No more delay. Justice must take root. 🌱
Follow this thread.
- Tackle climate disinformation & protect information integrity
- Hold companies accountable across their supply chainss
- Turn climate pledges into law
No more delay. Justice must take root. 🌱
Follow this thread.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#COP30 begins - and we’re on the ground to demand real action:
- Tackle climate disinformation & protect information integrity
- Hold companies accountable across their supply chainss
- Turn climate pledges into law
No more delay. Justice must take root. 🌱
Follow this thread.
- Tackle climate disinformation & protect information integrity
- Hold companies accountable across their supply chainss
- Turn climate pledges into law
No more delay. Justice must take root. 🌱
Follow this thread.
❗New research has found social media platforms amplified climate #disinformation during the Valencia floods last year.
The catastrophic floods claimed 237 lives, destroyed infrastructure and destroyed businesses.
Full report 👇 files.maldita.es/maldita/uplo...
The catastrophic floods claimed 237 lives, destroyed infrastructure and destroyed businesses.
Full report 👇 files.maldita.es/maldita/uplo...
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
❗New research has found social media platforms amplified climate #disinformation during the Valencia floods last year.
The catastrophic floods claimed 237 lives, destroyed infrastructure and destroyed businesses.
Full report 👇 files.maldita.es/maldita/uplo...
The catastrophic floods claimed 237 lives, destroyed infrastructure and destroyed businesses.
Full report 👇 files.maldita.es/maldita/uplo...
📢Research shows a 267% surge in #COP -related disinformation between July - Sept this year📢
A new report found despite recent research showing 80%+ of people support stronger climate action, increasing online disinfo (supercharged by AI) fuels hostility towards science🧵
www.dw.com/en/disinform...
A new report found despite recent research showing 80%+ of people support stronger climate action, increasing online disinfo (supercharged by AI) fuels hostility towards science🧵
www.dw.com/en/disinform...
Disinformation rife ahead of climate summit in Brazil – DW – 11/06/2025
As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change policies, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action.
www.dw.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
📢Research shows a 267% surge in #COP -related disinformation between July - Sept this year📢
A new report found despite recent research showing 80%+ of people support stronger climate action, increasing online disinfo (supercharged by AI) fuels hostility towards science🧵
www.dw.com/en/disinform...
A new report found despite recent research showing 80%+ of people support stronger climate action, increasing online disinfo (supercharged by AI) fuels hostility towards science🧵
www.dw.com/en/disinform...
Insight from our CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social and @hughmontgomery.bsky.social about the intersection between #climate, #health and the law 👇
Landmark court decisions for climate change mean that big emitters can no longer feign ignorance about the impacts of their activities.
Medical professionals have a part to play in this process, say @lauraclarkece.bsky.social and @hughmontgomery.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Medical professionals have a part to play in this process, say @lauraclarkece.bsky.social and @hughmontgomery.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Insight from our CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social and @hughmontgomery.bsky.social about the intersection between #climate, #health and the law 👇
A new YouGov poll commissioned by @friends-earth.bsky.social has revealed that a large majority of the British public want tougher laws to stop UK compannies contributing to deforestation🌳 and human rights abuses 💚
friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/major...
friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/major...
Majority back laws to protect human rights & global forests | Friends of the Earth
As UK ministers prepare for the UN climate talks in the Amazon, new YouGov polling shows an overwhelming majority of the British public want tougher laws to stop UK companies contributing to global de...
friendsoftheearth.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A new YouGov poll commissioned by @friends-earth.bsky.social has revealed that a large majority of the British public want tougher laws to stop UK compannies contributing to deforestation🌳 and human rights abuses 💚
friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/major...
friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/major...
1️⃣ Americans are being harmed in the making of plastic.
The gas that will feed INEOS’s new plastics project in Belgium will likely be fracked in the US – where gas operations are already poisoning communities, and polluting air and water.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The gas that will feed INEOS’s new plastics project in Belgium will likely be fracked in the US – where gas operations are already poisoning communities, and polluting air and water.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
1️⃣ Americans are being harmed in the making of plastic.
The gas that will feed INEOS’s new plastics project in Belgium will likely be fracked in the US – where gas operations are already poisoning communities, and polluting air and water.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The gas that will feed INEOS’s new plastics project in Belgium will likely be fracked in the US – where gas operations are already poisoning communities, and polluting air and water.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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This year’s #COP30 is historic - the first since the ICJ confirmed that governments and corps have legal duties to protect people & planet from climate harm.
Yet, some leaders are backtracking on the same laws that could take us forward.
We're going to Belém to make sure #JusticeTakesRoot.
⬇️
Yet, some leaders are backtracking on the same laws that could take us forward.
We're going to Belém to make sure #JusticeTakesRoot.
⬇️
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This year’s #COP30 is historic - the first since the ICJ confirmed that governments and corps have legal duties to protect people & planet from climate harm.
Yet, some leaders are backtracking on the same laws that could take us forward.
We're going to Belém to make sure #JusticeTakesRoot.
⬇️
Yet, some leaders are backtracking on the same laws that could take us forward.
We're going to Belém to make sure #JusticeTakesRoot.
⬇️
🚨Water companies in the UK have been ordered to reduce levels of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) in drinking water sources that serve more than 6m people.🚨
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵
Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people
The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚨Water companies in the UK have been ordered to reduce levels of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) in drinking water sources that serve more than 6m people.🚨
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵
The launch of a legal claim from the Indigenous Sámi people against the government of Finland involving climate change and cultural traditions is drawing on the Australian precedent in which Torres Strait Islanders won against the Commonwealth.
#ClimateLitigation
#ClimateLitigation
Sámi people to take Finland government to court
The launch of a legal claim from the Indigenous Sámi people against the government of Finland involving climate change and cultural traditions is drawing on an Australian precedent in which Tor...
nit.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The launch of a legal claim from the Indigenous Sámi people against the government of Finland involving climate change and cultural traditions is drawing on the Australian precedent in which Torres Strait Islanders won against the Commonwealth.
#ClimateLitigation
#ClimateLitigation
📢The European Court of Human Rights has said Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil & gas before opening new oil fields.
This week, the ECtHR gave a ruling that will change how governments approach fossil fuel development 🧵
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
This week, the ECtHR gave a ruling that will change how governments approach fossil fuel development 🧵
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📢The European Court of Human Rights has said Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil & gas before opening new oil fields.
This week, the ECtHR gave a ruling that will change how governments approach fossil fuel development 🧵
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
This week, the ECtHR gave a ruling that will change how governments approach fossil fuel development 🧵
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
“Heatwaves, floods, drought & disease are no longer distant warnings – they’re here now. As attribution science, climate litigation & grassroots activism grow, accountability for climate impacts is no longer a question of if but when.” - ClientEarth CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChange
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“Heatwaves, floods, drought & disease are no longer distant warnings – they’re here now. As attribution science, climate litigation & grassroots activism grow, accountability for climate impacts is no longer a question of if but when.” - ClientEarth CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChange
📢 Yesterday, the UK government published its new revised climate plan as a result of our Court victories.
We’ve had a first look at it, and here’s what we like ⬇️ 🧵
We’ve had a first look at it, and here’s what we like ⬇️ 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
📢 Yesterday, the UK government published its new revised climate plan as a result of our Court victories.
We’ve had a first look at it, and here’s what we like ⬇️ 🧵
We’ve had a first look at it, and here’s what we like ⬇️ 🧵
🚨Climate litigation alert🚨
Canada's largest pension fund has been sued over alleged mismanagement of climate risk 🧵
ecojustice.ca/news/canadas...
#CDNpensions #ClimateRisk #FiduciaryDuty #ClimateFinance #PensionGovernance #NetZero #cdnpoli #ProtectOurPensions
Canada's largest pension fund has been sued over alleged mismanagement of climate risk 🧵
ecojustice.ca/news/canadas...
#CDNpensions #ClimateRisk #FiduciaryDuty #ClimateFinance #PensionGovernance #NetZero #cdnpoli #ProtectOurPensions
Canada’s largest pension investment manager sued
Young Canadians are taking the sixth largest pension fund manager in the world to court, claiming it is failing to protect their pensions from climate risk.
ecojustice.ca
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨Climate litigation alert🚨
Canada's largest pension fund has been sued over alleged mismanagement of climate risk 🧵
ecojustice.ca/news/canadas...
#CDNpensions #ClimateRisk #FiduciaryDuty #ClimateFinance #PensionGovernance #NetZero #cdnpoli #ProtectOurPensions
Canada's largest pension fund has been sued over alleged mismanagement of climate risk 🧵
ecojustice.ca/news/canadas...
#CDNpensions #ClimateRisk #FiduciaryDuty #ClimateFinance #PensionGovernance #NetZero #cdnpoli #ProtectOurPensions
📢Scientists have said the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Melissa - the storm about to hit Jamaica - is likely due to the ocean's rapid heating.
With #COP30 just a few weeks out, this is yet another sign that we need strong, bold action from leaders.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
With #COP30 just a few weeks out, this is yet another sign that we need strong, bold action from leaders.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Warming oceans probably fueling Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification
Climate scientists have long warned that warming oceans are making such explosive storm development more common
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📢Scientists have said the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Melissa - the storm about to hit Jamaica - is likely due to the ocean's rapid heating.
With #COP30 just a few weeks out, this is yet another sign that we need strong, bold action from leaders.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
With #COP30 just a few weeks out, this is yet another sign that we need strong, bold action from leaders.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
🦘🍃Potential win for Australia's nature 🍃🦘
As part of a package of landmark reforms to be put to parliament in the next 2 weeks, companies in Australia who have made profits through breaking environmental laws could have them stripped 💪
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
As part of a package of landmark reforms to be put to parliament in the next 2 weeks, companies in Australia who have made profits through breaking environmental laws could have them stripped 💪
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🦘🍃Potential win for Australia's nature 🍃🦘
As part of a package of landmark reforms to be put to parliament in the next 2 weeks, companies in Australia who have made profits through breaking environmental laws could have them stripped 💪
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
As part of a package of landmark reforms to be put to parliament in the next 2 weeks, companies in Australia who have made profits through breaking environmental laws could have them stripped 💪
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The seas around South Korea are warming more rapidly than the global average, in part because they tend to be shallower.
Between 1968 and 2024, the average surface temperature of the country's seas increased by 1.58C, more than double the global rise of 0.74C.
#ClimateChange
Between 1968 and 2024, the average surface temperature of the country's seas increased by 1.58C, more than double the global rise of 0.74C.
#ClimateChange
South Korea's fishermen keep dying. Is climate change to blame?
An increase in deadly incidents has been partly caused by climate change, an inquiry found.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The seas around South Korea are warming more rapidly than the global average, in part because they tend to be shallower.
Between 1968 and 2024, the average surface temperature of the country's seas increased by 1.58C, more than double the global rise of 0.74C.
#ClimateChange
Between 1968 and 2024, the average surface temperature of the country's seas increased by 1.58C, more than double the global rise of 0.74C.
#ClimateChange
Ugandan landmark case returns to court today ⚖️
How 48 landslide survivors are holding power to account for climate damages 👇
greenwatch.or.ug/judicial-dec...
#ClimateChange #Uganda
How 48 landslide survivors are holding power to account for climate damages 👇
greenwatch.or.ug/judicial-dec...
#ClimateChange #Uganda
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ugandan landmark case returns to court today ⚖️
How 48 landslide survivors are holding power to account for climate damages 👇
greenwatch.or.ug/judicial-dec...
#ClimateChange #Uganda
How 48 landslide survivors are holding power to account for climate damages 👇
greenwatch.or.ug/judicial-dec...
#ClimateChange #Uganda