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'The exoticised narrative takes away from the truth': Leghari nine years on

'The exoticised narrative takes away from the truth': Leghari nine years on

Asghar Leghari’s family owns a 500-acre farm that grows sugarcane, mangos and other crops in the Rahim Yar Khan district of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Sugarcane is a thirsty crop, and the area is already water scarce, so rising temperatures and increasingly unpredictable rainfall - as well as illegal

How money laundering rules could be used to tackle deforestation

How money laundering rules could be used to tackle deforestation

I spent the last month binging on money laundering TV to research this feature. I ran away to Ozark, took a spin in the Laundromat and watched aghast at the excellent and terrifying documentary Dirty Money. But nothing prepared me to write about money laundering in relation to environmental destruction,

The unique character of African climate litigation

The unique character of African climate litigation

Jonah Gbemre and his family have farmed and fished in Delta State, Nigeria, for generations. It is also where Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary (SPDC) has long been extracting oil and burning off the methane by-products, a practice known as flaring. In 2005, acting for himself and on behalf of his

Why geoengineering is a human rights nightmare

Why geoengineering is a human rights nightmare

Geoengineering is a huge risk to human rights that could be the subject of future climate lawsuits Geoengineering is one of those terms that has the skill of attracting sexy stories despite its surface dryness. It regularly crops up in articles exploring the latest solution to climate change - a

How to support children fronting climate lawsuits

How to support children fronting climate lawsuits

How can young climate litigants can be better supported while respecting their agency as rational people with a genuine stake in the outcomes? Childhood can be both magical and terrifying; you are buffeted about by the winds of society but have no clear way of shaping them. Having to navigate

ClientEarth CEO: More lawsuits against company directors ‘will absolutely come’

ClientEarth CEO: More lawsuits against company directors ‘will absolutely come’

Corporate boards have only just seen the start of climate litigation, according to the boss of ClientEarth. Speaking to The Wave ahead of a talk at the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol, UK, CEO Laura Clarke says her organisation is making a “big push” on linking fiduciary duties and climate

Climate Case Ireland: Three years on

Climate Case Ireland: Three years on

In 2020, an environmental group won a landmark legal battle against the Irish government, when the Supreme Court declared that its emission-cutting plans fell “well short” of what was required to meet its climate commitments and ordered it to replace them with a more ambitious strategy. But three years on,