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Community Resources

This page includes downloadable guides to help you better understand environmental issues and your options. These resources are for general information only and should not be relied on as legal advice.

Reports

  • A Pillar of Justice II Joint report from ELF, RSPB and Friends of the Earth, 2023 – Download here
  • ELF’s Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22 – Download here
  • ELF’s report – Local urgency on the Climate Emergency? – A review of local authority Climate Emergency Declarations and supporting action across the UK – Download here
  • ELF’s 2019 review – Thanking Celebrating Rallying – Download here

Guides

  • Statutory Nuisance in the Magistrates’ Court: A How to Guide – Download here.
  • Statutory Nuisance: Template for Statutory Nuisance Summons – Download here.

External Resources

Events/Webinars and Podcasts

  • Changing Landscape of Access to Environmental Justice – Webinar

  • Helen Hamilton – Why Are Intensive Poultry Units A Problem in Herefordshire – available here 
  • ELF Professor David Hall Memorial Conversation at UCL – Standing up for Nature: Harnessing the power of local communities – with Chris Packham, Dr Maya-Rose ‘Birdgirl’ Craig and Carol Day – summary and recording available here
  • ELF event at Imperial College London and online – Reviving UK waterways – summary and slides available here
  • ELF/UKELA webinar – Climate Emergency in the UK – video and slides available here
  • ELF webinar with Marc Willers QC talking about his young peoples climate change case in the European Court of Human Rights – Watch here
  • ELF webinar on COP26 – Springboard for community action on climate change – Watch here.
  • ELF webinar on the role of pro-bono in environmental protection – Watch here.
  • Podcasts on the reintroduction of species – Read more.
  • David Hall Conversation 2024 – Watch here.

Consultation responses

  • ELF’s OEP Consultation Response for evidence on protected nature sites in England and Northern Ireland – Download here.
  • ELF’s joint response to the government’s consultation on Air Passenger Duty – Download here.
  • ELF’s response to the government’s consultation paper “Planning for the Future” – Download here.

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