Environment

Environmental, social & governance: Clare Hughes‑Williams & Sarah Crowther on why law firms should keep all three top of the agenda if they want to keep the lights on in the long term

Caroline Greenwell & Peter Carlyon consider the issue of companies exaggerating their green credentials

Greenwashing is all the rage, it seems, with companies keen to maximise marketing of their environmentally conscious products and some taking it too far. It can be a dangerous game, if caught out, as Charles Russell Speechlys partner Caroline Greenwell and trainee Peter Carlyon explain in this week’s NLJ

Central government should set out what it needs from local government on climate change, a public lawyer has urged after the IPCC issued a dire warning

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’s decision to allow a tunnel under Stonehenge has been ruled unlawful and quashed

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has issued an update on the Environment Bill, which returned to Parliament on 26 May 2021 for Report Stage and Third Reading. 

DAC Beachcroft has become the first law firm member of ClimateWise, a global insurance industry collaboration committed to reducing the impact of climate change on society. 

Environmental lawyer, Tim Crosland, has been given a £5,000 fine by the Supreme Court after it was alleged by the Attorney General, Michael Ellis QC, that Crosland disclosed a confidential Supreme Court decision to the news wire Press Association, in breach of an embargo, prior to the judgment being handed down.

Environmental protesters have lost their legal case to protect rare barbastelle bats roosting in the path of the High Speed Two (HS2) rail link.

A pro bono initiative to promote clauses in legal contracts that will help deliver action on climate change has been launched by Thomson Reuters Legal.