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⚖️ We use the power of the law to protect people and the planet. 📍 London, Brussels, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Beijing, Los Angeles, Tokyo 🌍 www.clientearth.org

You shouldn’t need to own a house or have your own solar panels to benefit from clean, affordable energy. People living in apartment blocks, tenants, local businesses and public services should be able to benefit too 🧵

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While Europe is burning, flash floods and typhoons are ravaging Asia. Our thoughts are with those in the many Asian countries who are seeing the devastation that this rainfall is causing, having to rebuild their lives after losing loved ones, homes, food sources and incomes. ❤️

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Across Europe communities are once again living through devastating wildfires. We stand with the people & communities affected by these fires: those who have lost homes, businesses, farms or sources of income, those forced to evacuate & everyone facing the uncertainty & hardship that follows ❤️

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🔥As much of the world swelters in record temps, endures water shortages, flees from wildfires & thousands of lives are lost... Big Oil's profits are healthier than ever. Just 57 companies have been linked to 80% global CO₂ emissions since 2016. Big polluters must pay for the damage they're doing.

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🍔Big Meat is being held accountable🍔 The world's biggest meat company, JBS, is facing court-action over how its 6 billion dollar global expansion does not align with its climate and human rights obligations. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/4

​World’s largest meat company faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion

Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rights

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We're taking legal action against Hungary and Poland to make it easy for everyone to access clean, affordable energy. How? With energy communities☀️ The EU gave us the right to energy communities years ago. But some countries still haven’t made them accessible. That's why today we're taking action.

🌳 “Climate change drives nature loss, and nature loss drives climate change. We must tackle both.”🌳 This was the headline of the UK government’s climate and nature statement, delivered in the House of Commons on Monday. 1/1

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❗ Shocking climate news❗ Imagine being a country respected the world over for your green image, democratic institutions and rule of law... whilst proposing legislation that would block climate change lawsuits against big polluters 🤔 Well that’s exactly what New Zealand is doing right now🫠 1/3

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Protected should mean protected. Across Europe, Marine Protected Areas are meant to safeguard some of our most important marine ecosystems. Yet destructive bottom trawling continues in many of them. Learn more about what the The MPA Legal Coalition is doing about it. 👉 mpa-legal-coalition.org

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🐝A win for bees🐝 “The announcement marks a welcome change in the UK government's direction and an important step forward in the protection of vital wildlife from the risk of harm posed by chemicals.” - ClientEarth Head of UK Kyle Lischak. #pesticides www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024

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⚖️ Victory! A French court has ruled TotalEnergies must limit its climate polllution. Big polluters must cut emissions and align with 1.5°C - and it’s enforceable. No one is above the law 🌍🔥

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Leading climate scientists have written to broadcast editors to express concern about recent UK #heatwave coverage. The letter urges news organisations to better inform the public of the scientific links between extreme weather, #climatechange and #netzero. pressgazette.co.uk/news/climate...

Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave

Connection between greenhouse emmissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.

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⚽🌍 FIFA says it wants to promote sustainability. Yet the company continues to take money from polluting corporations. Football shouldn’t be a platform for fossil fuel greenwashing. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 👇 Join our call to kick big polluters out of football

Fifa urged to drop Saudi oil giant Aramco as activists target World Cup

Fifa has defended its Aramco sponsorship, saying revenues are reinvested back into football at all levels

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One year after major international ocean commitments at #UNOC, surveyed coastal communities report they still aren’t seeing meaningful action. This is a wake-up call for governments to step up enforcement to protect our ocean 🌍 Explore the findings:

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📢 Companies incl. Shell & TotalEnergies are being called out for greenwashing 📢 Today, @beuc.eu & 12 other consumer organisations across Europe filed a complaint against Shell, TotalEnergies, ENGIE & EniPlenitude, for using misleading green claims around fossil fuels in household energy offers.1/6

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