James Thornton

James Thornton founded ClientEarth, Europe’s leading environmental law organisation, in 2007. Named by The New Statesman as one of 10 people who could change the world, James continues to lead ClientEarth as the organisation and its ever-growing network of environmental lawyers maintains its campaign to hold central and local government to account on air pollution. It has been victorious in three cases against the UK government over the country’s illegal and harmful levels of air pollution, resulting in a surge of activity from local authorities to investigate measures to tackle illegal levels of pollution.