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Webinar
How can legal action and investigative journalism work together to drive meaningful change in environmental protection?
This will be the main focus of this webinar, the first in a two-part series on litigation, and part of larger Journalismfunds' Earth investigations series of webinars for environmental journalists.
During this session, the ClientEarth lawyers will advise on the key materials you should preserve during an investigation, how to gather testimonies or visual evidence so they can later be presented in court, and what else to consider if you believe your findings could be used to enforce accountability.
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ClientEarth is a non-profit environmental law organisation that uses legal action to uphold environmental protections and hold governments and corporations accountable across Europe. It has taken legal action against the European Commission for approving harmful fossil fuel projects, sued the UK government over air pollution, and challenged Poland’s expansion of coal-fired power plants. Their work spans climate change, biodiversity, and pollution laws. They have previously collaborated with investigative journalists to expose environmental harm and systemic wrongdoing in the environmental sector and will be speaking from experience.
Speakers:
- Hélène Duguy – Lawyer, Resources, Energy and Mobility Team, ClientEarth
Hélène is an environmental law specialist who joined ClientEarth in 2020 and is specialising on the regulation of chemicals pollution, with a focus on the European Union region, and related litigation work.
Before joining ClientEarth, Hélène worked at the US law firm Squire Patton Boggs as a legal adviser specialising on EU environmental regulatory issues, including circular economy, chemicals and sustainable product policy. Prior to that experience, she worked at the DG Environment of the European Commission on multilateral environmental cooperation, and at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC-UNEP).
- Nils Courcy – Senior Lawyer, Fisheries team, ClientEarth
Nils is senior legal expert in fisheries compliance.
He worked for 8 years in the legal service and the fisheries control team of DG MARE, where he developed a solid expertise on fisheries management and in particular on compliance aspects. He participated in the process of revising the current EU fisheries control regulation (evaluation, public consultation and drafting) and audited the control system of several Member States and third countries.
Since then, he has been putting his expertise at the service of environmental NGOs such as WWF EPO and The Pew Charitable Trust. He joined ClientEarth's fisheries team in 2019 as a lawyer. He specialises in compliance issues such as IUU fishing, control of fisheries and enforcement.
NB: This webinar will not be recorded.
Brussels
Belgium
