Capacity ceilings in EU fisheries – Barrier or opportunity for decarbonisation?: Webinar. Date: 9 December 2024, 1200 CET Location: Online – register here Organised by: ClientEarth To ensure wider accessibility, live translation will […]
NGOs continue fight against bottom trawling in MPAs with lawsuit in Spain. Environmental NGOs Oceana and ClientEarth are filing legal action against the Spanish government after it was found that […]
EU fishing capacity rules no barrier to decarbonising industry, despite industry claims. New report debunks fishing industry arguments against decarbonisation. A new report from ClientEarth reveals that limits on vessel weight and power under […]
Commission must deliver EU Fisheries Energy Transition Roadmap before year end – NGOs, artisanal fishers & scientists say. The European Commission must stick to its commitment to deliver a roadmap for the […]
Decarbonise Now response to Belgium’s Undermining of EU Energy Tax Directive. Responding to leaked reports that Belgium’s EU Council Presidency has proposed a new compromise text that seeks to undermine the proposal of […]
Urgency of eliminating fossil fuel subsidies for fisheries. Is the urgency of eliminating fossil fuel subsidies for fisheries reflected in the Energy Taxation Directive? Flaminia Tacconi, Senior Lawyer at ClientEarth […]
Salmon travelling thousands of miles across continents “falling at the last hurdle” due to polluted UK rivers. Iconic species face extinction from key rivers within the next few decades without […]
ClientEarth lawyers have begun legal action over the unsustainable fishing limits that were agreed between the EU and the UK for 2022. During their second round of post-Brexit negotiations, the […]
EU must seize opportunity to end fishing sector fossil fuel addiction. NGOs are calling for a rigorous plan to decarbonise the fishing sector and for the EU to stick to […]
ClientEarth – some EU countries pushing for unsustainable catch limits. ClientEarth has published a series of documents revealing the truth behind the setting of unsustainable fishing limits in the European Union that […]
Outcome of trilateral fish negotiations was a missed opportunity. The conclusion of the first post-Brexit trilateral negotiations over shared fish stocks in the North Sea between the EU, Norway and […]
Hesitant Steps Towards Ending Overfishing but Nothing to Celebrate from EU, UK and Norway Negotiation says Our Fish and Client Earth More Robust Response Urgently Needed for Long Term Problems […]
ClientEarth – EU fishing agreement ‘falls short’. Fisheries experts at environmental law charity ClientEarth have said the agreement reached by EU ministers on fishing limits for 2021 in the Northeast Atlantic […]
Environmental NGO rescue plan for oceans. Environmental NGOs have launched a new rescue plan for Europe to make “our ocean healthy by 2030”. 102 environmental organisations, led by Seas At […]
Key EU countries blamed for unsustainable fishing limits. Over the last five years key EU countries have actively pushed for unsustainable fishing limits in the North East Atlantic and other […]