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Climate litigation against TotalEnergies: legal action continues before the Court of Appeals

In the ongoing climate litigation brought by 6 associations and 15 local authorities against TotalEnergies, a decision from the Paris judicial court on July…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Complaint filed against French banks for money laundering and concealment of proceeds from illegal deforestation in the Amazon

Sherpa, supported by Harvest, the Center for Climate Crime Analysis (CCCA), Repórter Brasil and Transparency International, filed a complaint with the French National Prosecutor’s…

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Focus on: Can the proposed European directive on environmental crime increase prosecutions and sanctions for multinationals?

In December 2021, the European Commission published a proposal to revise the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. While negotiations…

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Corporate Impunity

Deforestation in Amazon: Despite the sale of some of its assets, the Casino Group will have to face justice

Burdened with a debt of more than $6 billion the French retail group Casino is considering selling its Brazilian and Colombian stores to boost…

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Corporate Impunity

Climate change: new step in TotalEnergies case

This wednesday, a first hearing will take place before the Paris judicial court in the climate change litigation initiated by 6 NGOs and 16…

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Corporate Impunity

Directive on corporate Due Diligence: Conservative MEPs go against citizens’ expectations

Paris, 12 April 2023 – Two weeks before a decisive vote is due to take place at the European Parliament on the Corporate sustainability…

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Climate change litigation against Total: NGOs and local authorities’ request for provisional measures pending trial

New step in the legal action initiated by 6 NGOs and 16 local authorities: the coalition responds to TotalEnergies’ climate inaction strategy and delaying…

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Corporate Impunity

Focus on: Environmental issues under the proposed European Directive on the Duty of Vigilance

October 2022 – Last February, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on “corporate sustainability due diligence”. Now that the Council is…

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Corporate Impunity

Casino case: The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous community joins the legal action

As a hearing will be held today in the Casino case related to deforestation and land grabbing, the association Jupaú, representing the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people,…

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Corporate Impunity

European Directive on Corporate Due Diligence: the Council of the European Union approves a text weakened by France

Paris, December 1st, 2022 – This morning, the Council has finally approved its general approach on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Proposal. The…

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Corporate Impunity

Deforestation in the Amazon: organisations refuse the mediation proposal in the legal action against Casino

The eleven organizations that filed a lawsuit against Casino have refused the mediation suggested by the judge during last June’s hearing. According to the…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Report: How French banks fuel deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Paris, Novembre 28, 2022 – As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, a new report , unveiled…

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Corporate Impunity

French oil company Perenco sued over environmental damage in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sherpa and Friends of the Earth France, supported by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA-US), take legal action against the company Perenco S.A. over pollution…

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Corporate Influence

Socfin/Bolloré plantations: rising profits, ongoing repression

Paris, 24 May 2022 – From Sierra Leone to Nigeria, through Cameroon, Guinea and Ivory Coast, communities living near the industrial palm oil and…

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Corporate Impunity

Victory over the transnational corporation Perenco: a step forward in the fight against opacity and for access to justice

Yesterday, the Court of cassation (French supreme court) ruled in favour of Sherpa and Friends of the Earth France in their legal dispute with…

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Climate litigation against TotalEnergies: legal action continues before the Court of Appeals

Complaint filed against French banks for money laundering and concealment of proceeds from illegal deforestation in the Amazon

Focus on: Can the proposed European directive on environmental crime increase prosecutions and sanctions for multinationals?

Deforestation in Amazon: Despite the sale of some of its assets, the Casino Group will have to face justice

Climate change: new step in TotalEnergies case

Directive on corporate Due Diligence: Conservative MEPs go against citizens’ expectations

Climate change litigation against Total: NGOs and local authorities’ request for provisional measures pending trial

Focus on: Environmental issues under the proposed European Directive on the Duty of Vigilance

Casino case: The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous community joins the legal action

European Directive on Corporate Due Diligence: the Council of the European Union approves a text weakened by France

Deforestation in the Amazon: organisations refuse the mediation proposal in the legal action against Casino

Report: How French banks fuel deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

French oil company Perenco sued over environmental damage in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Socfin/Bolloré plantations: rising profits, ongoing repression

Victory over the transnational corporation Perenco: a step forward in the fight against opacity and for access to justice

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