ClientEarth
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| Founded | 2008 |
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| Founder | James Thornton (CEO) |
| Focus | Law, Environmentalism |
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| Slogan | Justice for the Planet |
| Website | www.clientearth.org |
ClientEarth is a non-profit environmental law organisation, founded in 2008, with offices in London, Brussels and Warsaw. In 2012 BusinessGreen gave ClientEarth its NGO of the Year award. In 2013 ClientEarth was awarded the Law Society's LSA Award for Excellence in Environmental Responsibility.
ClientEarth is attempting to make it a legal right for European citizens and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to bring environmental cases to court. In 2010, ClientEarth were successful in a legal challenge to get UK courts to accept the Aarhus Convention; this convention obliges governments to give rights and remove financial barriers to NGOs and individuals to mount legal challenges to cases of environmental damage. In 2011 ClientEarth announced the launch of its European Aarhus Centre. It provides citizens and Non-governmental organisations with the legal expertise necessary to improve access to information and justice in the EU.
In 2009, ClientEarth successfully lobbied the European Commission to reject the British Government's request for a time extension on improving air quality in its most polluted areas. In July 2011 the organisation submitted a case to the High Court, challenging Defra on its failure to protect UK citizens' health from the harmful impacts of air pollution. While applications for judicial review in the High Court and Court of Appeal were declined, ClientEarth's appeal to the Supreme Court was successful; it found Government in breach of the law and referred further questions to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU).
Along with three other environmental groups (Transport and Environment, the European Environmental Bureau and BirdLife International), ClientEarth filed a lawsuit against the European Commission in March 2010. The groups sued the Commission for not releasing important documents concerning biofuels in line with transparency rules.
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