Environment and Climate Change

Environment and CLIMATE CHANGE

GLAN considers the most fundamental violations of human rights to be structural and longstanding. The ability for individuals to lead healthy and secure lives is undermined by systems of economic exploitation and environmental harm. Climate change, and the effects it will have on the poorest populations, is perhaps the major challenge the international (legal) system is facing. We are determined to mobilise our expertise in innovative ways to challenge those exacerbating, and profiting from, environmental and economic injustice.

ACTIVITIES

EUROPE
EMISSIONS CRISIS

GLAN and CAN Europe legally challenge European Commission to up EU climate ambition. The request underlines that the EU´s overall climate ambition remains alarmingly off-track.

EUROPE
YOUTH4CLIMATEJUSTICE

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 3 climate cases, including our historic case on behalf of six young people in Portugal against 32 countries for failing to take urgent action to tackle the climate crisis.

COLOMBIA
DISPLACEMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL HARM

Simultaneous complaints filed in Australia, Switzerland, Ireland & UK against business entities linked to Cerrejón coal mine, Colombia

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IRELAND & GHANA
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS & TAX POLICY

Following our submission UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to examine overseas impact of Ireland’s tax policies

GLOBAL
MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

Landmark challenge against the London Metal Exchange seeking to prevent metals that are the proceeds of environmental crimes being traded on the global exchange.