Environment and Climate

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

Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Legal Doctrine Articles, Research and Studies

13 September 2023 – In December 2021, the European Commission published a proposal to revise the Directive on the protection of the...

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

Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Strategic litigation, Strengthening corporate accountability litigation

Paris / Bogotá / São Paulo – 10 July 2023 – Burdened with a debt of more than $6 billion the French retail group Casino is...

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Climate change: new step in TotalEnergies case

Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en

Paris, 30 May, 2023 – This wednesday, a first hearing will take place before the Paris judicial court in the climate change litigation...

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

Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Strengthening corporate accountability advocacy

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

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

Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Research and Studies, Strengthening corporate accountability advocacy

October 2022 – Last February, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on “corporate sustainability due...

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

Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Strategic litigation

Paris / Sao Paulo / Bogota – January 12, 2023 – As a hearing will be held today in the Casino case related to deforestation and...

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

Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Strategic litigation, Strengthening corporate accountability litigation

Paris / Bogota / Sao Paulo – December 2, 2022 – The eleven organizations that filed a lawsuit against Casino have refused the...

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Report: How French banks fuel deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Reports

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

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

Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Strengthening corporate accountability litigation

Paris, November 9, 2022 – Sherpa and Friends of the Earth France, supported by the  Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA-US),...

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Socfin/Bolloré plantations: rising profits, ongoing repression

Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Front page, Labor rights and Modern slavery, Press release-en

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

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

Environment and Climate, Front page, Press release-en, Strategic litigation

Paris, 10 March 2022 – Yesterday, the Court of cassation (French supreme court) ruled in favour of Sherpa and Friends of the Earth...

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Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: the proposal finally unveiled by the Commission must be improved

Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Front page, Labor rights and Modern slavery, Press release-en, Strengthening corporate accountability advocacy

Paris, 23 February 2022 – After many delays, the European Commission has just published its proposal for a directive imposing a corporate...

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