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Webinaire : Recent cases of climate litigation against companies: state of the art and future perspectives. RWE case (Lliuya vs RWE), Shell and ING cases (Milieudefensie vs Shell and ING)

June 10, 2025, 3 pm – 5 pm CET

In this webinar we will focus on two recent cases:

Nearly ten years after Saúl Luciano Lliuya filed his climate lawsuit against RWE supported by Germanwatch and the Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit, the Higher Regional Court in Hamm terminated the hearings and will render its decision on May 28, 2025. The Court will decide if large emitters can be held liable for damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions. In the first instance, this was denied by the LG Essen, and other German lower courts found that civil law might not be applicable to forward looking applications on climate protection. The Court in Hamm has shown since its first order of November 30, 2017 that it is of a different opinion. 

On March 28, 2025, environmental NGO Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) issued a summons to the Dutch bank ING, arguing that ING is committing an ‘unlawful act’ due to violation of the legal societal duty of care under Article 6:162 of the Dutch Civil Code as a result of insufficient climate action. One of the main complaints in the summons is that ING does not set a GHG emissions reduction target for a large part of its emissions, including especially the ‘scope 3’ of financed emissions. 

The impact of the decision on November 12, 2024 of the Court of Appeal in The Hague in the Shell case and the new Milieudefensie case against Shell, launched on May 13, 2025, will be discussed briefly too.

Speakers
Rechtsanwältin Dr. Roda Verheyen: Liability of carbon majors “backwards looking”  – The decision of the Hamm Court of Appeal (Oberlandesgericht Hamm) in the case Lliuya vs RWE, Germany
Attorney Pim Heemskerk (Paulussen Advocaten, Maastricht):  Liability scope in climate cases – The case Milieudefensie vs ING Bank, Netherlands
Introduced by Prof. Delphine Misonne, UCLouvain, CEDRE, elni

Please register by mail before June 3, 2025 to gaelle.hoogsteyn@uclouvain.be and you will receive the link for the webinar (Teams)

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Glyphosate & Co – Approval process and review tools underAarhus

Webinar – 26 March, 16:30 – 17:30

As farmer protests grew across Europe, on 28 November 2023, the European Commission renewed the approval for the pesticide glyphosate under Regulation EC 1107/2009 : another 10 years of use of the notorious active ingredient for plant protection products. Many civil societyorganisations have challenged this decision, including a consortium of six NGOs led by PAN Europe. After thoroughly investigating the glyphosate re-approval process and identifying several critical flaws, the NGOs submitted a request to the Commission for an internal review.

In the elni webinar series, we will discuss current legal challenges in
the implementation of Regulation EC 1107/2009 with Martin Dermine,
Executive Director of PAN Europe, and Antoine Bailleux, lawyer and legal
scholar.

When: 26 March, 16:30 – 17:30
Where: Online (free)
How to register: Send a quick e-mail to info@elni.org

26 April Webinar : PFAS-scandals in many European countries: what can we learn?

ELNI webinar series II – CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW TOWARDS 2030

26 April 2022 online, from 15.00 to 17.00

The Netherlands, Germany and Flanders have recently been rocked by pollution scandals involving polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Just at a time when these countries/regions thought they had realised the bulk of their soil policy, emerging contaminants such as PFAS are making it clear that they have missed out on these toxic substances. Where did national/regional environmental policy and regulation go wrong? Why has European regulation not worked either? Is the circular economy threatened by the ubiquitous PFAS contamination? What is the exact role of the Treaty of Stockholm and the POPs Regulation in this respect?

Host:

  • Thomas Ormond, Regional administration in Frankfurt/M

Speakers:

  • Edward Brans, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Christoph Krakau, Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Isabelle Larmuseau, Leuven University, Belgium/Flanders

Debate:

  • Debate with webinar participants

Pre-registration is required via ELNI-VVOR: PFAS-scandals in many European countries: what can we learn? (26/04/22)

16 March – Webinar Implementing the Green Deal – How many legal challenges for environmental law?

ELNI webinar series II CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW TOWARDS 2030

16 March, from 12.00 to 14.00 ONLINE

The Green Deal adopted by the Commission in December 2019 sets out the blueprint for a transformational change. In contrast to previous EU environmental programs, the Green Deal appears to be significantly more ambitious. However, it is being implemented in a piecemeal fashion with a flurry of strategies and twelve legislative proposals. The aim of the webinar is to give an overview of the legal challenges of the ongoing reform. 

Host:

  • Delphine Misonne, Université Saint-Louis, Belgium/Brussels

 Speakers:

  • Nicolas de Sadeleer, Jean Monnet Chair, Université Saint-Louis, Belgium/Brussels
  • Alicja Sikora, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
  • Jerzy Jendrośka, Opole University, Poland

 Debate:

  • Debate with webinar participants

Pre-registration is required via ELNI-VVOR: Implementing the Green Deal: how many legal challenges for environmental law? (16/03/22)