ClientEarth
We use the law to represent people and planet, defend our natural world and hold leaders to account.
06/05/2026
⚖️Legal action alert⚖️
Consumer goods giant Unilever is the subject of a complaint by Filipino communities, on account of the enormous pollution in the country caused by the company's non-recyclable plastic sachets.
This is a landmark pollution complaint before the Pollution Adjudication Board of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Philippines.
The sachets are overwhelming waterways and causing numerous harms, including flooding and health risks for fisherfolk and waste-workers.
Filipino communities are demanding reparations, administrative fines for Unilever, and an immediate cease-and-desist order.
🏭Big corporations are all too often causing devastating pollution like this through their business practices, and should be held to account.
30/04/2026
💥 Last chance 💥
Right now, governments are falling short on their duty to protect the ocean from harmful exploitation.
But we're taking legal action every day to keep it safe from damaging bottom trawling, plastic pollution and oil drilling.
And you can help: you have until 9pm tonight to donate and your gift will be matched, doubling your impact.
Join the fight:
Donate to ClientEarth - all gifts MATCHED 🐋 Join me in supporting ClientEarth use the power of the law to protect the ocean. They hold governments and big polluters accountable in court and lobby to strengthen ocean protections.
We’re taking France to court to protect seabirds from unselective fishing.
Every year, tens of thousands of endangered and protected species are caught in fishing gear targeting fish like hake, sea bass, and tuna. They are then discarded into the ocean.
This hidden tragedy can be prevented.
With Sea Shepherd France and Défense des Milieux Aquatiques, we believe that French authorities are failing to monitor and protect seabirds from unselective fishing activities. This is in breach of multiple EU laws, including the Birds and Habitats Directives.
These laws are essential to ensure fisheries’ low-impact and sustainability on the long term, while protecting marine wildlife.
France is not the only one with a bycatch problem: the EU Commission currently has infringement procedures open against several EU countries for failing to tackle bycatch of species like puffins, dolphins, whales.
We are taking legal action to ensure that:
- Governments have concrete plans to reduce this threat
- Data gets collected so we know the true scale of bycatch
- Laws aimed at monitoring bycatch and protecting marine mammals and seabirds are enforced.
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