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Isabella Kaminski

Isabella Kaminski is a freelance journalist specialising in the environment and climate change

September 2024

  • The Hague

    The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass law banning fossil fuel-related ads

    Legislation makes it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint

August 2024

  • Smoke rises from a factory as a lorry loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris

    Campaigners sue EU over ‘grossly inadequate’ 2030 climate targets

  • Graphic of refugees, cycle couriers, construction workers and street cleaners

    Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

July 2024

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

    Brazil court freezes assets of Dirceu Kruger to pay climate compensation for illegal deforestation

June 2024

  • Finch raising both arms in delight as other activists look  on

    Sarah Finch: climate activism ‘early adopter’ behind supreme court win

  • Sarah Finch is surrounded by the media and campaigners, some holding banners.

    Future impact of proposed fossil fuel projects must be assessed, UK court rules

May 2024

  • A row of lawyers in a courtroom

    States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court

  • An oil processing facility outside the Siberian town of Nefteyugansk

    Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy

April 2024

  • Dr Sarah Benn leaving the medical tribunal service in Manchester.

    Retired UK GP suspended for five months after climate protests

    Sarah Benn is first of three GPs facing disciplinary tribunals this year over climate activism
  • Fishers working with a net

    ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims

    Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change
    • Prosecution of woman for climate trial sign not in public interest, court told

    • Today in Focus
      How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe

    • Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts

March 2024

  • A member of the national environmental agency looking at an aircraft belonging to illegal miners being consumed by fire during an operation against Amazon deforestation, at the Yanomami territory in Roraima state, Brazil.

    Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes

    Campaigners say activities leading to severe environmental harm usually also violate human rights
  • Sarah Benn speaks to a police officer with her hand glued to a door

    UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off

    GPs with convictions over protests face tribunals to determine whether they can keep licence to practise
  • The edge of a pink house with no floor hangs over a small cliff with furniture spread on the sand below.

    UK company directors may be liable for climate impacts, say lawyers

    Legal experts say directors could face personal claims for failing to consider how businesses affect nature

February 2024

  • Trudi Warner and supporters on 4 April last year holding up signs outside the Old Bailey in central London.

    Solicitor general urged to drop prosecutions of jury rights activists

    Letter signed by hundreds of activists criticises minister for starting contempt of court action against activist Trudi Warner

January 2024

  • People hold up placards on a beach

    Dutch Caribbean islanders sue Netherlands over climate change

    Bonaire citizens file formal legal challenge, as research shows part of island will be submerged by 2050

November 2023

  • An image of alleged large-scale deforestation and habitat degradation in Romania

    EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’

  • The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Dr Gail Bradbrook on Waterloo Bridge, London.

    Extinction Rebellion co-founder guilty of breaking window at HS2 protest

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