Restoring and Protecting Forest Ecosystems Through Strategic Litigation
The Forest Litigation Collaborative (FLC) is a joint project of the Lifescape Project and the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI).
Restoring and protecting forests is key to our climate future and indeed the web of life on earth. The FLC works internationally to pursue strategic litigation and quasi-legal approaches that promote the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems and their associated carbon sinks.
Much of our current work focuses on countering the increasing use of forest biomass for renewable energy, a trend which is destroying some of the most biodiverse and carbon-rich forests in the world while increasing net carbon emissions.
Collaborating with other NGOs and local lawyers on a case by case basis, we use science and strategic legal action to challenge corporate and government policies that promote burning forest wood for fuel. For example, this can involve litigation arguing that new legislation or policy is contrary to climate- and biodiversity-related legal obligations, seeking to stop corporate greenwashing of bioenergy, or challenging logging permits.
You can read more about our current work on the FLC website here.
For more information about the Forest Litigation Collaborative, send a message to Frances Lawson (our Managing Lawyer) here.
