The UK's largest power plant is facing worker lawsuits after the national health and safety regulator dropped criminal charges over biomass dust in 2023, a Land and Climate Investigation can reveal.
In an excerpt from their new book, Dana Zartner, Fabian Cardenas, and Mohammed Golam Sarwar reflect on the most famous case of nature being granted legal personhood.
Exxon owes the people of Groningen millions in compensation for damage caused by gas extraction. Thanks to a legal instrument, it could be the residents of the province that end up compensating the fossil fuel giant.
Camille Corcoran talks to experts about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
Drax “must be held accountable,” says US Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen, after The Times and Land and Climate Review reveal the bioenergy company violates US regulation an average of five times per day.
This month, the British power company has been issued another fine in Mississippi, with additional penalties expected in Louisiana. In collaboration with The Intercept, Land and Climate Review talk to experts and locals about Drax's operations in the US Southeast.
Academic research offers a different story from news media on Sri Lanka's short-lived ban on agrochemicals. Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores what really happened, and whether there's a future for national-scale organic policy.
Polluted with waste and chemicals, and threatened by sprawling urbanisation, our rivers are dying. Some countries are giving them legal personhood for protection - will it work?
Time is rapidly running out to prevent catastrophic climate impacts to the Earth’s polar ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost - decision-makers at COP30 must act now, say leading polar scientists.
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Letizia Tedesco, Josephine Z. Rapp and Petra Heil
Land tenure is key to climate goals, but carbon markets have had harrowing impacts on local communities. A new agenda on adaptation must succeed where decarbonisation has failed, say Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble.
Women are neglected by climate funding, despite their pivotal role in Indigenous land management and climate resilience, say Namnyak Sinandei Makko and Omaira Bolaños.
After three years of negotiations, delegates must not compromise on their principles at the UN's final session to decide international legally binding rules on plastic pollution, says Punyathorn Jeungsmarn.
Donald Trump is dismantling all sources of independent opinion in the United States to increase the power of the presidency, says John Holdren, former Presidential Science Advisor to Barack Obama.
Austin Frerick describes how US farming policy created a grain monopoly, in an extract from his acclaimed 2024 book 'Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry'.
Europe has lost 800 farmers a day since 2010 – the sector has real issues that need fixing. Backtracking on climate will only appease lobbyists, not protesters, says Thin Lei Win.
Will this week mark the end for the EU's corporate responsibility bill? That would be a shameful legacy for Germany's FDP, says Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent
The EU successfully regulated illegal fishing with a 'carding' system in 2010. It should take the same approach with the upcoming forced labour law, says the Environmental Justice Foundation's CEO.
The human impact of petrochemical plants along the Houston Ship Channel prove that Amnesty's recommendations to the EU are vital, say the authors of a new report.
Europe's demand for lithium is set to soar to 60 times current levels, with cobalt and graphite 15 times higher. But how will proposals for new EU mining and refining interact with the EU's role as a champion of biodiversity and development?
Ahead of a key vote in European Parliament on 1st June, Solidaridad's Catarina Vieira warns that the law risks cutting smallholder farmers out of European supply chains, forcing them into even less regulated markets.
Debt-for-climate swaps are an effective mechanism to relieve poverty and help wealthy countries meet their climate finance obligations, says Avishka Sendanayake.
The International Finance Corporation is trialling a new ‘green equity’ approach. Kate Geary from Recourse talks about why this is important, and what needs improving to phase out fossil fuel finance.
Following their new report, BankTrack's Hannah Greep discusses The Equator Principles' failure to mobilise climate finance or protect human and Indigenous rights.
Bertie speaks to former Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren about the slashing of climate science budgets under President Donald Trump's administration.
Bertie speaks with Ma Tianjie, author of "In Search of Green China," discussing China’s environmental transformation and how protestors have influenced policymaking.
Europe was going to halve pesticide use – what happened?
Alasdair talks to Dr Martin Dermine, Executive Director of Pesticide Action Network Europe, about why EU regulation of agrochemicals is moving so slowly.
Has the Africa Climate Summit been “hijacked by foreign interests”?
Bertie talks to Kenyan campaigner Omar Elmawi about the controversy surrounding McKinsey and other organisations involved with next week's inaugural Africa Climate Summit.
How is EU lobbying blocking climate farming reform?
Bertie speaks to Lighthouse Reports' Lead Food Systems journalist Thin Lei Win about their new investigation into Copa-Cogeca, Europe's largest agricultural lobby group.
What are the politics behind nuclear energy in France?
Alasdair speaks to Thomas Pellerin Carlin, Director of the EU Programme at the Institute for Climate Economics, about the French politics of nuclear energy and sufficiency.
Is the UK losing its leadership status on net zero?
Alasdair speaks to Dr. Doug Parr, Greenpeace UK's Chief Scientist, about the UK's place on the global stage, how its net zero policies are progressing, and how the country is taking dangerous risks with nuclear and aviation.
Bertie speaks to Wijnand Stoefs, Carbon Market Watch's policy lead on Carbon Removal, about how EU policy is developing around greenhouse gas removals.
Why has EU law not stopped pesticides from harming ecosystems?
Alasdair speaks to Professor Mike Norton, Environment Programme Director at the European Academies Science Advisory Council, about newly published research on neonicotinoid pesticides.
Climate diplomacy expert Dhanasree Jayaram tells Bertie about the environmental risks that could threaten Antarctica before then, including illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, militarisation, bioprospecting, increased tourism, and resource extraction.
Alasdair speaks to Kelly Stone, Senior Policy Analyst at ActionAid, about her time at COP27 and where international diplomacy is taking offset markets and their governance.
What does Australia’s new Labor government mean for climate politics?
On 23 May 2022, the Australian Labor Party entered government for the first time since 2013, under the leadership of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Alasdair spoke to Dr. Marija Taflaga, Director of the Australian National University's Center for the Study of Australian Politics, to talk about shifting climate politics in the county, and what the new government could mean for the green transition.
Has environmental policy contributed to the crisis in Sri Lanka?
Bertie speaks to Melani Gunathilaka, a Sri Lankan climate activist who has become a leading voice in the Gotagogama protests. They discussed the role of climate policy in the cascading crises and corruption allegations that have recently plagued the country.
How has climate change affected Lebanon? With Assaad Razzouk
Lauren talks to Assaad Razzouk, host of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast and British Lebanese clean energy entrepreneur. They talk about the recent elections in Lebanon, systemic problems with climate finance, and the ways a clean energy transition could help struggling economies.
Human rights, climate change, and the Philippines – with Yeb Saño
Bertie talked to the Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Yeb Saño, about the conclusion of a 7 year inquiry into human rights and climate change in the Philippines.
How Europe funds illegal Russian logging, and why timber sanctions matter – with Earthsight’s Sam Lawson
With the invasion of Ukraine ongoing, Bertie talks to Sam Lawson, Director of investigative NGO Earthsight, following a public letter from 120 NGOs calling for a boycott on Russian and Belarusian wood.
Gareth Redmond-King talks about the preparations for the next climate talks. He explains the UK's role as a climate leader, recent odd missteps leading to the talks and his take on existing progress.
Edward and Alasdair speak to Sasha Stashwick, climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), on how the Biden Administration is gearing up to tackle climate change and issues with the use of biomass for tackling climate goals.
Doug Parr speaks about how British climate policy has changed and what might happen after the pandemic and greenhouse gas removal technologies, what 'negative emissions' are and the risks of rising 'institutional greenwash' in climate policy and business.
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