Welcome to ClientEarth

ClientEarth employs a legal-centric strategy to enforce environmental laws, challenge corporate pollution, and reshape financial systems. Key achievements include winning the right for the public to challenge the EU in court on environmental decisions, securing the closure of coal plants in Europe, and litigating against fossil fuel companies for misleading advertising and abandoned wells. The organization focuses on four primary pillars: breaking new legal ground for justice, aligning financial flows with planetary needs, transforming food and land use, and phasing out fossil fuels in energy and transport.

• ClientEarth focuses on strengthening legal systems to protect nature and human rights by creating enforceable rights and using corporate law to challenge polluters, such as Danone in France.
• In 2021, the organization won a legal battle granting the public the right to challenge the European Union in court regarding decisions that violate environmental law, enhancing accountability for biodiversity loss and climate change.
• The organization works to reroute the global economy by applying consumer laws to hold companies like TotalEnergies accountable for misleading energy transition claims and by influencing the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
• ClientEarth has targeted misleading advertising by oil companies, specifically leading to BP pulling ad campaigns after a complaint alleged that over 96% of the company's annual spend remains on oil and gas.
• In the realm of food and land use, ClientEarth contributed to a commitment for 30% land and ocean protection at COP15 and helped create the EU's Nature Restoration Law, the first of its kind to set legally binding restoration targets in Europe.
• The organization has successfully used the law to stop 11 coal power plants and mines in Europe, including the Bełchatów plant in Poland, and has launched cases in over 30 German cities against polluting vehicles.
• ClientEarth is litigating against the oil and gas industry in Colorado to hold companies accountable for 'zombie wells'—abandoned wells that released over 295,000 tons of methane in 2021 alone.

APA

ClientEarth (n.d.). Welcome to ClientEarth. https://www.clientearth.org/media/yqskalce/our-unique-approach.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. Welcome to ClientEarth. n.d. https://www.clientearth.org/media/yqskalce/our-unique-approach.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{clientearthndwelcome, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{Welcome to ClientEarth}}, institution = {ClientEarth}, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/yqskalce/our-unique-approach.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }