Emily Nicholson

Sep 18, 2024 | lexology.com | Emily Nicholson |Christina Chambers

Clear The Air In Havering, a local environmental group founded by three local mums, is challenging Havering Council’s lack of action over an illegal landfill site at Launders Lane in Rainham, which is affecting air quality and local residents’ lives. Constantly smouldering underground fires coming from the illegal landfill at Launders Lane in Rainham cause air pollution all year round.

Jul 9, 2024 | lexology.com | Emily Nicholson |Anna Hoffmann

Supreme Court decisions open new litigation avenues for environmental claimsIn the last few weeks, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has delivered two very significant judgments that will shape environmental litigation in the coming years. In Finch, a 3-2 majority of the UKSC found that the Environmental Impact Assessment for a proposed oil project had to take account of the emissions that will inevitably occur when the oil produced is burnt (also known as 'downstream' or 'scope 3 emissions').

Feb 21, 2024 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mishal Gudka |David Obura |Eric A. Treml |Emily Nicholson

1 INTRODUCTION Coral reefs are one of the most biodiverse and valuable ecosystem types in the world (Adey, 2000; Anthony et al., 2017) but are also among the most threatened (Bellwood et al., 2019; Burke et al., 2011; Halpern et al., 2015; Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2017) due to climate-driven and local pressures increasing in magnitude and frequency (Anthony et al., 2017; Beyer et al., 2018; Costa et al., 2020).

Feb 7, 2024 | nature.com | Emily Nicholson |Angela Macedo Andrade |Ângela Leão Andrade |Thomas Brooks |José R. Ferrer-Paris |David Keith | +5 more

AbstractThe Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity set the agenda for global aspirations and action to reverse biodiversity loss. The GBF includes an explicit goal for maintaining and restoring biodiversity, encompassing ecosystems, species and genetic diversity (goal A), targets for ecosystem protection and restoration and headline indicators to track progress and guide action1.