Posted by Stephen Sykes  |  23/01/2012

Markets and businesses – environmental or otherwise - work best when the rules of trade are clear; when the competitive playing field has been flattened out by t...

Posted by Robert Lee  |  18/01/2012

Professor Bob Lee has been appointed as a Special Advisor to the National Assembly for Wales’ Environment and Sustainability Committee. The appointme...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  16/01/2012

Last week I was interviewed for One Planet on loopholes in environmental law.  The feature ...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  24/11/2011

Bergen, 24 November 2011 – Two new international reports on the conflict between migratory birds and power lines in the African-Eurasian region ...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  21/10/2011

Foresight, BIS and the Government Office for Science published on the 20 October 2011 a report on environmental migration. The conclusions are fascinating:

-&n...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  10/10/2011

Executive and non-executive officers of companies and their advisors need to be aware of the proposed crime of Ecocide.  On the 30th September and only for one da...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  28/09/2011

Four hundred gallons of refinery vacuum gas oil leaked into Southampton Water in Hampshire, a protected area and the playground of the sailing fraternity in the south ...

Posted by David Hart QC  |  16/09/2011

In the UK and EU, there are a lot of statutes and rules about climate change, and relatively little strategic litigation. Hop over the Pond, and we see exactly the rev...

Posted by Kirsty Schneeberger  |  14/09/2011

On 16th - 18th November this year, Bonn – the former capital of Germany – will play host to what is tipped to be one of the most important issues-focussed ...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  13/09/2011

A 24 hour climate change reality show which looks at cliamte change in action and aks questions su...

Posted by David Hart QC  |  25/08/2011

R (Infinis) v. Ofgem & Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency Limited, Interested Party [2011] EWHC 1873 (Admin) Lindblom J, 10 August 2011 ...

Posted by David Hart QC  |  18/07/2011

U & Partners (East Anglia) Ltd, R (on the application of) v. The Broads Authority [2011] EWHC 1824 (Admin) 13 July 2011. ...

Posted by Stephen Sykes  |  11/07/2011

In the face of climate change and mankind’s unsustainable use of finite resources (potable water, nutritional food, fossil fuels, rare earth elements and so fort...

Posted by David Hart QC  |  17/06/2011

A recent post from Begonia Filgueira celebrated the move by the Bolivian Parliament to accord rights in law to Nature. It rightly commanded considerable attention but ...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  09/06/2011

I greeted, with a sigh of relief, the news that the Serbian forces had found and arrested the former Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic. I was not ecstatic, could n...

Posted by David Hart QC  |  06/06/2011

The ticklish question of how to come up with a cheap but effective form of environmental judicial review still has not been answered.

One way talked about...

Posted by David Hart QC  |  02/06/2011

Various NGOs challenged the grant of permits to 3 new power stations in the Netherlands, because the state was exceeding its emission limits for sulphur diox...

Posted by Stephen Sykes  |  01/06/2011

Politics is the art of obfuscation, rather than perspicacity. It is best to keep things aspirational (and vague) rather than to announce dangerously practical, specifi...

Posted by Kirsty Schneeberger  |  09/05/2011

"We borrow environmental capital from future generations with no intention or prospect of repaying ... We act as wedo because we can get away with it: future gen...

Posted by Robert Lee  |  05/05/2011

Saugus is a small town 13 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts. It was first settled in 1629 and from 1646 an iron works, the first integrated iron works in the USA op...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  08/04/2011

Given that it has been 20 years since the first Earth Summit and we are going back to Rio de Janeiro in 2012, I thought I would write about our environmental achieveme...

Posted by Kirsty Schneeberger  |  06/04/2011

What would you like the year 2050 to be like?  What should it feel like and what kind of a life do you hope to be living?  It might at first seem a little bi...

Posted by Robert Lee  |  14/03/2011

INCREASED legislative powers may be given to the Welsh Assembly following a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum held on 3 March 2011. The new powers are likely co...

Posted by Dr. Rupert Read  |  07/03/2011

Introduction: House of Lords reform is next

Now that it is certain that the AV referendum will take place on May 5, coinciding with local elec...

Posted by Stephen Sykes  |  28/10/2010

As I wrote in an earlier blog for ERIC, the 2000s and especially the 2010s present unrivalled opportunities for environmental entrepreneurs to develop new enterprises,...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  30/09/2010

Is the democratic system itself flawed when it comes to protecting the environment?

It is true that the democratic process until now has not served the environ...

Posted by Andrew Williams  |  14/02/2010

Against a background of unprecedented investment in electric vehicles development, the last few months of 2009 saw the launch of two separate initiatives aimed at acce...

Posted by Ian Mason  |  28/09/2009

The UKELA conference was extraordinary. More than forty practical lawyers, academics and students met together at the Magdalen Project, an educational organic farm in ...

Posted by Ian Mason  |  22/09/2009

The UK Environmental Law Association holds its annual Wild Law weekend just after the September equinox and it was useful to review the developments of the past year. ...

Posted by Jill Marshall  |  21/09/2009

It’s the beginning of a new academic year.  First year undergraduate students will be arriving in droves over the next few weeks to embark on a ...

Posted by Stephen Sykes  |  15/09/2009

Calling all environmental entrepreneurs: you're in the perfect time and place to profit yourselves - and the planet.

It is an interesting fact that several of ...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  06/09/2009

That’s it. We, in the so-called developed and developing worlds, are energy junkies. No turning back. No cure. No behavioural changes to beat the addiction. We w...

Posted by Robert Lee  |  30/07/2009

The Isle of Wight hardly seems the obvious candidate for radical protest but the lock in a Vestas Wind Systems factory in Newport IoW has brought together green groups...

Posted by Lynda Warren  |  29/07/2009

With inconsistencies apparent in government policy on nuclear power, has the UK¹s approach to spent nuclear fuel really been thought thr...

Posted by Robert Lee  |  29/07/2009

In a major High Court ruling, a group of young people claiming birth defects caused by exposure to a 'soup of toxic materials' following land reclamation have won a le...

Posted by Ian Mason  |  20/07/2009

In east Africa, where steps are being taken to protect terrain with spiritual significance, local discussions have global significance.

Posted by Andrew Williams  |  16/07/2009

UK luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin has teamed up with Toyota in an innovative deal to manufacture a ‘cheap’ upmarket version of the Toyota iQ for &pou...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  09/07/2009

How community networks succeed around the world.

I am a member of the Gaia Network, which was set up nine y...

Posted by Andrew Williams  |  06/07/2009

Should the UK car scrappage scheme be thrown on the scrap heap?

Since its inception in April, the UK scrapp...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  06/07/2009

Climate change is globally recognised, but what is international law doing to avert catastrophe, says Begonia Filgueira, environmental lawyer...

Posted by Robert Lee  |  06/07/2009

The revelations about MPs' expense claims are more than a question of petty greed, says Professor Robert Lee.

As the scandal of MPs' expenses continues to reve...

Posted by Stephen Sykes  |  06/07/2009

The Independent on Sunday recently published a list of the UK’s leading environmentalists. The list makes fascinating reading, not just...

Posted by Begonia Filgueira   |  06/07/2009

What will it take to push the government in a greener direction?

In early June I attended the Westminster e...