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Topic: Climate and Environment
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GAIL Member Drop-In | AI Governance & Corporate Sustainability Regulation
This GAIL Europe hosted Member Drop-in focuses on emerging developments in AI governance and corporate sustainability regulation in Europe and globally.
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Blue Economy Briefing
This briefing outlines key developments shaping the blue economy sector in 2026, with the High Seas Treaty entering into force and blue finance commitments reshaping the sector.
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Strengthening Global Collaboration Among Lawyers to Uphold the Rule of Law
This interactive roundtable focused on strengthening cross-border collaboration in support of the rule of law, in partnership with Trinity International in Paris. Log in to access key learnings from the session.
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A New Legal Ethic for a Fractured World
This article sets out why, in the midst of climate crisis, digital disruption, and rising inequality, lawyers must embrace a renewed global legal ethic—grounded in human dignity, accountability, and the rule of law—to collaboratively shape a just and sustainable future.
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Leslie Cornell, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Social Finance, Inc.
This new series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this article, we hear from Leslie Cornell.
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, In House Lawyers, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
Shaping a New Corporate Governance
This in-person event in Turin, Italy covers building participatory business models and decision-making processes that onboard nature and society.
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Julian Harrell, Partner at Faegre Drinker
This new series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this article, we hear from Julian Harrell.
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
RIGHTS OF RIVERS: A practical guide for local communities and local authorities to recognise your local rivers’ rights
The report outlines why England’s current environmental laws are failing to protect rivers and makes a practical, globally informed case for recognising rivers as living entities with legal rights, supported through local councils, communities, and new forms of river guardianship.
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks
The EU Ombudswoman has ruled that the European Commission acted improperly in weakening environmental and human-rights protections through opaque, non-democratic “Omnibus” processes, prompting NGOs to demand stricter transparency and evidence-based lawmaking for all future reforms.
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A Few Words from the GAIL President – Q4 2025
Michael Ryland, the President of GAIL, reflects on the growing momentum of the impact economy and calls on impact lawyers, through GAIL’s platform and community, to “raise the bar” by innovating, showing the law’s value, and acting as catalysts for systemic change in the face of urgent climate, social, and political challenges.