Experts examine company directors’ climate liabilities
The climate liabilities and duties of company directors will be discussed by a group of international experts in Oxford on Wednesday 8 June. ClientEarth CEO James Thornton, senior lawyer Alice Garton...
View ArticleBreaking new ground on directors’ climate liabilities
Lawyers, academics, accountants, actuaries and other financial leaders have gathered in Oxford to discuss the potential liability of company directors for climate risks. At Lady Margaret Hall, an...
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In pictures: University of Oxford hosts inaugural CCLI conference
As business steels itself to deal with seismic changes in the world’s climate, what is legally expected of directors is becoming more stringent. The Paris talks in December confirmed what we already...
View ArticleClientEarth triggers review of companies’ climate disclosures
ClientEarth has alerted the UK financial regulator to reporting breaches by two oil and gas companies. These companies have failed to adequately disclose climate change risks to their businesses. In...
View ArticleClimate risk and regulators: an investors guide
ClientEarth has issued an investor briefing on regulatory complaints following our move to report Cairn Energy PLC and SOCO International PLC to the Financial Reporting Council for inadequate...
View ArticleExxon investigation: A tipping point on climate risk
Fossil fuel companies and their advisers have been warned that they need to take climate risk into account, following reports of a probe into Exxon’s accounting. It follows suggestions that Exxon is...
View ArticleClientEarth wins at FT ‘Innovative Lawyer’ awards
ClientEarth’s CEO James Thornton has won a prestigious European ‘special achievement’ award from the Financial Times, at a high profile ceremony for innovative lawyers. ClientEarth also received a...
View Article“A matter of time” before directors sued for climate failings
Barristers in Australia have warned company directors that it is ‘only a matter of time’ before one of them faces legal action for failing to consider and disclose risks posed to their business by...
View ArticleMarina Agiejew
Marina joined the Strategic Litigation team at ClientEarth in April 2016 as a Project Assistant. She is based in our London office. Marina joined us after participating in a VSO project in rural...
View ArticleElspeth Owens
Elspeth join ClientEarth in January 2014. As a Barrister, Elspeth supports a number of projects at ClientEarth with her litigation and advocacy expertise, including the work of ClientEarth’s Climate...
View ArticleJon Bennett
Jon joined our London office in March 2015 as Communications Manager. Before joining ClientEarth, Jon worked as Head of Media for Compassion in World Farming, highlighting the effect of industrial...
View ArticleSophie Marjanac
Sophie joined ClientEarth’s Climate Litigation team in November 2015. Prior to joining ClientEarth, Sophie was a senior lawyer at Clayton Utz, Australia’s largest independent law firm, where she...
View ArticleAlice Garton
Alice joined our London office in April 2015 as Project Leader for the Company and Financial workstream. Alice joined ClientEarth in April 2015 as the Company and Financial Project Leader. Prior to...
View ArticleFossil fuel companies must reveal long-term risks
A group of investors has written to a financial regulator to highlight their expectation that fossil fuel companies use a new reporting requirement to communicate climate change risk to their business....
View ArticleRio Tinto board backs climate resolution
The board of mining giant Rio Tinto has supported a resolution that requires much greater transparency in future on how it will deal with climate change risk. The climate resolution, which will be put...
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ClientEarth: Overall winners at prestigious awards
ClientEarth Director of Programmes Karla Hill, CEO James Thornton and Company and Financial Lawyer Alice Garton ClientEarth’s legal work on UK pollution and highlighting the risks climate change poses...
View ArticleLessons from Exxon: Honesty’s the best policy
Yesterday, Attorneys General from multiple US states announced they will unite to address key climate questions across America – and most interestingly for us, they are eyeing potential investigations...
View ArticleCoal giant files for bankruptcy protection
Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal producer has filed for bankruptcy protection. As coal is phased out, other carbon intensive companies need to look urgently at how they will...
View ArticleKarla Hill
Karla Hill is ClientEarth’s director of programmes, in which role she coordinates strategy and activities across our Climate, Energy and Trade programmes. Prior to taking this position she led our work...
View ArticleAmy Rose
Amy Rose joined ClientEarth in March 2016 as the Head of Strategic Litigation, and is focusing her efforts on developing our growing strategic litigation portfolio and litigation support systems....
View ArticleInvestors vote for climate transparency
Mining giant Anglo American’s shareholders have voted overwhelmingly for more climate change transparency from the company. The shareholder resolution, which requires greater transparency on several...
View ArticleOil industry smoke screen on climate change
The oil industry was putting its own profits before the health of the planet as far back as the 1960s. That’s the view of James Thornton, CEO of environmental lawyers ClientEarth, following recent...
View ArticleFossil fuel companies: be part of the low carbon future
Fossil fuel companies were today urged to put limiting climate change at the heart of their business model by more than 75 civil society organisations. ClientEarth’s CEO James Thornton was among the...
View ArticleNew climate risk disclosure recommendations distract from illegal industry...
ClientEarth has warned that regulators and companies may use new recommendations published today on climate risk disclosure to avoid compliance with, and enforcement of, existing laws. The...
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