IN A NUTSHELL 🌿 The impact of sustainable transportation on the environment is direct and measurable: shifting to electric fleets, shared micromobility and low-carbon electricity can markedly reduce per‑kilometre CO₂ and particulate emissions, especially outside central urban cores. 🚍 Well-designed public systems—bus rapid transit, rail, electric buses and trams—deliver higher […]

Olkeriai River Under Pressure: Maasai Communities Confront the Impacts of Sand Harvesting in Kenya Country Kenya agnes Mon, 03/16/2026 – 13:54 Issues Human Rights Program 5 Main Image An investigation into how unregulated sand extraction is draining water sources and reshaping pastoral life in Kenya’s drylands.​ By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS […]

Russian Court Extends Detention of Indigenous Climate Activist Daria Egereva for Three More Months Country Russia agnes Thu, 03/12/2026 – 17:17 Issues Human Rights Program 5 Main Image Today, March 12, Moscow’s Basmanny Court held another hearing on Daria Egereva’s pretrial detention. The court extended her pretrial detention for three […]

On 10 March 2026, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) adopted a single corporate enforcement and voluntary self-disclosure policy (DOJ CEP) that supersedes “all component-specific or US Attorney’s Office-specific corporate enforcement policies.”1 But, despite the clear push for uniformity, and reiteration of existing baseline voluntary self-disclosure principles, questions remain about the benefits […]

Global law firm K&L Gates advised Flywheel Partners Limited on the sale of a minority stake in Natural Innovations, a specialist in plant-led and bespoke vegetable solutions for food industry and foodservice customers, to Solina, a leading global food ingredients company and Astorg portfolio company. London private equity partner Julian […]

Theo Angelis, a partner in the Seattle office of K&L Gates LLP, has been appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court by Governor Bob Ferguson, succeeding Justice Barbara Madsen, who announced her retirement on February 2. Angelis is the most recent in a long legacy of K&L Gates lawyers demonstrating […]