This LRI report highlights the organisation’s key achievements, the lessons learned over 15 years of experience, and our vision for the future. We are deeply grateful to our volunteers, law firm collaborators, partner institutions, universities, and donors. Thank you for your continued support as we work together to empower developing countries …

As climate litigation becomes increasingly more frequent, the case that has the potential to influence and inform all future cases has just begun its final stages of deliberation. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is deliberating over 2 questions referred by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) (in Res 77/276) concerning obligations of States under …

Pascale Bird and Olivia Tattarletti were recently in Kigali, Rwanda to participate in the revitalisation of the network of environmental lawyers from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Twenty attendees from the network (lawyers from public service, private practice, NGOs and academia) took part in a training workshop from …

The impacts of climate change are becoming ever more serious, while international climate law is becoming ever more complex and demanding. Low income developing countries are disproportionately impacted, but with limited capacity to respond in comparison with those that have largely caused the problems. We are a London based charity supporting climate …

On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights delivered three landmark judgements in cases relating to environmental protection and human rights. Out of the three cases, two were determined to be inadmissible by the Grand Chamber on procedural grounds – lack of standing for the case against France,[1] and lack of extra-territorial jurisdiction …