El presidente Gustavo Petro Urrego anunció este miércoles que Colombia va a salir del sistema de arbitraje internacional de inversión, porque los tribunales terminan resolviendo las disputas a favor d...

España exporta al Sur Global miles de toneladas de pesticidas prohibidos en la UE, aplicando un “doble rasero” que prioriza el beneficio comercial sobre la salud y la biodiversidad exterior.

The Trump administration's move to gut the bedrock of US climate legislation last week presents Canada with an inevitable choice: lower our standards to meet theirs and remain competitive in North Ame...

Opinion: As a clean energy powerhouse thanks to renewable energy and critical minerals, we could create hundreds of thousands of jobs

The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development notes with grave concern that Europe has entered an era in which climate-related disasters are becoming structural: persistent droug...

ICJ must name fossil fuels as the culprit in the climate crisis and declare States’ legal duty to phase them out and bring polluters to justice.

The world's rainbow reefs have gone ghostly white in seas around the globe due to record heat in the oceans, the International Coral Reef Initiative reports. But scientists say the reefs aren't all de...

Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and the risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws, ministers say

Between 2000 and 2020, only one-third of environmental enforcement actions were actually brought against the biggest corporate offenders.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided this week that Switzerland is not yet complying with the requirements of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling…

In this conversation, Dr. David R. Boyd, a leading voice in environmental law and former UN Special Rapporteur, provides a comprehensive overview of the right to a healthy environment. He discusses th...

Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination

On the evening of the second inauguration of President Trump, the White House released a flurry of executive orders on a wide range of subjects. Several of them specifically concerned energy and the e...

With record-level participation and potentially far-reaching impacts, this climate justice case is the biggest court case in the world. Article co-published with One Earth Now The International ...

With record-level participation and potentially far-reaching impacts, this climate justice case is the biggest court case in the world. Article co-published with One Earth Now The International ...

In a landmark ruling, the High Court of South Africa has overturned the government’s plans to add 1,500 MW of new coal-fired power to the national grid, saying they are “unlawful and invalid.”

Investors buying into claims against governments are winning huge payouts. Developing nations, and the environment, are losing big.