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Federación Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana v. Petroperú SA, Ministry of the Environment, and others, Superior Court of Justice Loreto, Civil Chamber (29 August 2024)
2024
South America Peru
Access to Justice Standing
Indigenous Peoples
Pollution, Water
Export Processing Zone of Kenya & 10 Ors v The National Environment Management Authority & 6 Ors (Supreme Court of Kenya) (Petition E021 of 2023) [2024] KESC 75 (KLR)(6 December 2024)Supreme Court of Kenya
2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Courts Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Sudhakaran K.V. v Central Pollution Control Board and others, WP(C) No. 16253 of 2023 (High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam) (21 January 2025) (Order by Nitin Jamdar, C.J.)
2025
South Asia India
Plastic Cases Single-use plastic law Waste
Waste Plastics and plastic waste
R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) v Surrey County Council and others, UKSC 20 (20 June 2024)
2024
Climate Change Greenhouse gases
Environmental Impact Assessment Impacts
Oil & Gas Onshore oil & gas
ELAW - Dr. Fernanda Salinas (6 Dec 2024) “Impactos Acumulativos del Megaproyecto Minero-Energético Pinares-Ecotek, Municipio de Tocoa, Departamento de Colón, República De Honduras.”
How to Evaluate Environmental Impact Assessments for Oil and Gas Projects
2024
Global
Climate Change
Energy
Oil & Gas Offshore oil & gas Onshore oil & gas Seismic exploration for oil & gas
Cover image evaluate oil and gas projects guidebook
M K Ranjitsinh & Ors. v Union of India & Ors. Supreme Court of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 838 of 2019 with Civil Appeal No. 3570 of 2022 (judgment) (21 March 2024)
2024
South Asia India
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Energy Renewables
Right to ... Health
Sustainable Development
Wildlife Endangered species
The Missing “Just” in Vietnam’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)
2024
Southeast Asia Viet Nam
Defending Defenders
Energy
A new in-depth report about Vietnam’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) was released in June 2024, outlining the problems with the financing, governance, energy solutions, and participation necessary to achieve a truly just transition.
Mussington v. Development Control Authority [2024] UKPC 3, Privy Council Appeal No 0116 of 2021
2024
Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda
Access to Justice Standing
Mineral Sands Resources v. Christine Reddell, et al., Case No. 7595/2017, High Court of South Africa (Western Cape Division, Cape Town) (9 February 2021)
2021
Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa
Access to Justice
SLAPP Suits Slander/libel/defamation
Decision from the High Court of South Africa (Western Cape Division, Cape Town) asserting that "[c]orporations should not be allowed to weaponise our legal system against the ordinary citizen and activists in order to intimidate and silence them" and recognizing "the SLAPP suit defense."

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