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Vance Center Project Builds Knowledge About Corporate Climate Laws in 17 Countries

Posted on May 28, 2024

The Vance Center worked with partner law firms to help update a widely used international database of climate change laws, contributing essential information for NGOs and companies in 17 countries in Southeast Asia and the MENA region.  Many countries now require companies to reveal more about the climate-related impacts of their activities, through legislation and policies such as corporate disclosure regulation. In the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently introduced requirements for large companies to provide more information on their climate impacts, and similar laws have also been introduced in the European Union. Keeping up with these laws... read more

Vance Center Advice Assists UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Preparing Landmark General Comment on the Environment and Climate Change

Posted on September 29, 2023

The Vance Center and partner firm Clifford Chance, with a team led by Janet Whittaker in Washington, DC and Counsel Elliot Luke in Perth, Australia, provided crucial advice and legal support in the development of General Comment 26, published on August 22.  The Committee on the Rights of the Child, supported by Vance Center client Terre des Hommes, relied on a wide range of such input while developing the general comment. The Committee received more than 170 written submissions from States, United Nations entities, national human rights institutions, civil society and children’s organizations, held consultations in Asia and South America,... read more

Observations from the Brazilian Amazon: Attending “O Chamado do Cacique Raoni”

Posted on August 25, 2023

By Nathalya Desterro, Vance Center Environment Program Advisor  The Call of Chief Raoni was the second event of its kind, described by organizers as a “great global gathering of Mother Earth guardian leaders.” More than a thousand attendees, including more than 800 people representing about a dozen different Indigenous communities, came to celebrate the nominal 91st birthday of Indigenous leader Chief Raoni Metuktire, acknowledge his decades of leadership on environmental issues and bring attention to the voices of Indigenous communities on the Amazon region, the climate, and more. Chief Raoni is an iconic Indigenous leader who has spent much of... read more