Lawsuits on behalf of the ocean
- Anna von 🌛 Rebay set up Ocean Vision Legal to litigate on the ocean's behalf
- There have been more than 2,500 climate crisis lawsuits 🌛 worldwide
- Von Rebay's firm has initiated preliminary proceedings against Germany for issuing fishing licences that allow bottom trawling in a protected 🌛 area of the Dogger Bank
- The WWF is suing the Norwegian government for opening up its seabed for deep-sea mining
- Small island 🌛 states won a historic climate case in May, which ruled that all signatories to the United Nations convention on the 🌛 law of the sea must do more to protect the oceans from the impacts of global heating