Author: Legal Voices for the Future
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June 2025 Newsletter
Dear LVF Members Welcome to Legal Voices for the Future’s June newsletter! This edition includes: A friend of LVF said “If not now, then when? If not me, then who?”. While we at LVF know that the climate and biodiversity crises can feel overwhelming at times, we are reminded of this quote and our collective community…
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LVF Member Q&A: Youth Engagement at the Climate Change COP
Now that we’re in the run-up COP30 in Brazil in November, we interviewed our member Mathilda Lorkin about her experience at COP29 in Baku last year – have a read of her key takeaways below! 1. Please could you tell us about yourself and your role on the ground at COP29? Sure – my name…
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Legal Voices for the Future at Wakelyns Agroforestry
Reflections from Harriet Hall, co-chair of the LVF Stewardship Committee On 10-11 May 2025, a group of 30 LVF members travelled to Wakelyns Agroforestry in Suffolk, for our first LVF field trip, generously hosted by David Wolfe KC and Amanda Illing. Wakelyns is a pioneering 22.5 hectare farm that combines agroforestry, food, community, research and environmental…
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May 2025 Newsletter
Dear Members Welcome to LVF’s May newsletter! This edition of Legal Voices for the Future’s newsletter includes: As we focus on sharing knowledge and increasing our education on the topics of climate and biodiversity in this newsletter, we were reminded of G.K Chesteron’s quote: “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes…
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Reflections on soil
By Carol Yuen, LVF Stewardship Committee Member and LLM in Environmental Law and Policy candidate at UCL, 2024/25 SOIL: The World at Our Feet, held at Somerset House, was an exhibition to unearth soil’s vital role in our planet’s future. LVF members visited together on 30 March 2025. The exhibition was an excellent combination of…
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April 2025 Newsletter
Dear LVF Members Welcome to Legal Voices for the Future’s April newsletter! This edition includes: As Margaret J. Wheatley said, “there is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about” and given what is currently happening around the globe, we are particularly feeling the importance of our community. We believe that working…
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Launching LVF Community Book Club
We are very excited to launch our Book Club 📚! We will be hosting a bi-annual book club with our members, where we will come together to discuss books on a particular theme. We will be sharing a list, rather than a single book, on the theme so that we can come together to have diverse…
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LVF on Law Talks Podcast
Ellie from the Law Talks podcast interviewed LVF Stewardship Committee members Dominika Leitane, Ming Zee Tee, and Riley Forson, as they shared their diverse journeys into the legal profession, their passion for environmental law, and their involvement with LVF. They discuss the importance of their community, the innovative knowledge sessions they host, and how their…
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March 2025 Newsletter
This edition of Legal Voices for the Future’s newsletter includes: March webinar with E.ON on the Energy Transition Last week we launched our webinar series on the energy transition, led by Maxine, Victoria and Norbert from the legal team at E.ON. We discussed the legal, financial and practical difficulties of moving away from traditional fossil fuels to a more sustainable energy focused future. We also considered the…
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International Women’s Day 2025 – Inspiring Women
This International Women’s Day (IWD), LVF is celebrating women around the world working hard to protect our planet. We have been inspired by so many incredible women in the climate and biodiversity space that it is impossible to showcase all those who have paved the way for us to advocate for positive change. However, we…
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