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"This is a rallying call for a better future – and it’s up to all of us to answer it.” Lea Main-Klingst, ClientEarth lawyer Now we must keep pushing for leaders the world over to translate this progress into meaningful climate action. 🙏 💚 4/4

The resolution urges State leaders to translate the opinion into national climate ambition. It was introduced by Vanuatu, who, along with communities on the frontlines of climate impacts, led the multi-year campaign that resulted in the ICJ’s opinion last year. 3/4

🎉 Win for climate justice 🎉 Countries have voted YES to turning the world’s highest court’s decision on climate change into political action. This is the next step in taking last year’s historic climate change opinion from the International Court of Justice forward. 1/4

Because of David Attenborough, the world can see what he understood long before most of us, that the natural world isn’t just beautiful, it’s essential to all life on earth. Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough. And thank you for all that you have done for our planet.

Filipino communities are demanding reparations, administrative fines for Unilever, and an immediate cease-and-desist order. 🏭Big corporations are all too often causing devastating pollution like this through their business practices, and should be held to account. 3/3

This is a landmark pollution complaint before the Pollution Adjudication Board of the Department of Environment & Natural Resources in the Philippines. The sachets are overwhelming waterways, causing numerous harms, incl flooding & health risks for fisherfolk & waste-workers.2/3

⚖️Legal action alert⚖️ Consumer goods giant Unilever is the subject of a complaint by Filipino communities, on account of the enormous pollution in the country caused by the company's non-recyclable plastic sachets. 1/3

Catching unwanted fish and dumping them back into the sea weakens the whole ecosystem. We call on #AGRIFISH Ministers & @CostasKadis to prevent the issue by fully implementing the #CFP with ecosystem-based approach & selective fishing. #RethinkFisheries

Thank you to all who wrote to Ed Miliband and your MPs about this issue.💚 You made it clear how passionate we all are when it comes to protecting nature. We will continue to fight for it. 💪3/3

Thankfully, the legal protections for nature have remained largely intact, with the Gov opting instead for guidance regarding the Habitats Regulations & to tweak rather than remove the National Park duty. We'll continue our parliamentary advocacy with our partners. 2/3

🐝Legal protections for UK nature have remained largely intact The UK Gov has announced next steps for the 'Fingleton Review' which threatened to remove some remaining safeguards for nature & people, & would've made it easier for developers to damage/destroy UK nature 1/3

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters. ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink,’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’. theguardian.com/environment/20…

📢The ICJ was unanimous. Climate action is now a legal imperative. Now the #UNGA must pass an ambitious resolution on implementation, with no delay. #ICJAO

5/5 That’s why ClientEarth USA is taking legal action. This new case challenges the legality of employers ignoring climate-related financial risks when managing retirement savings. This could set a crucial precedent.

4/5 When retirement savings are exposed to these risks, it raises serious questions about fiduciary duty. Are corporations properly protecting their workers’ long-term financial interests?

🚨 Only 14% of England’s rivers meet good ecological standards. UK Parliament is about to decide whether that changes. Demand a Water Reform Bill that stops pollution and delivers #CleanWaterNow. 🌟 Email your MP, it'll take 2 minutes with our template: act.clientearth.org/page/187464/ac…

👉 If we’re serious about tackling plastic pollution and the climate crisis, we must address production - not just recycling. 3/3

We’re challenging that system in court. Our legal action targets INEOS's €4bn 'Project One' plastics facility in Antwerp - a project that would lock in fossil-fuel based plastic production for decades, pushed by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe. 2/3 clientearth.org/latest/news/cl…

In a stunning new book, author Beth Gardiner investigates how recycling was promoted for decades as a full solution, while fossil fuel and petrochemical companies expanded plastic production behind the scenes. 1/3 theguardian.com/environment/20…