Green Chamber
The Green Chamber serve as a venue for building critical legal knowledge through grassroots engagement, legal research, and pro-community, movement-based litigation. Our goal is to equip judges, lawyers, law students, indigenous activists, and community advocates with the legal tools necessary to drive climate justice using local and international legal forums. Our work involves strategic public interest litigation (PIL), capacity building and training for young lawyers, and partnerships with bar associations.
(A) The Green Chamber, CAC’s law unit, is working on seven legal cases at the moment. It has trained 20+ young lawyers in climate and rights laws. It has also trained 500+ journalists in climate, energy, air quality, and health issues. CAC has filed multiple RTI requests as part of legal research on public information.
(B) The legal team has opposed the Malir Expressway (renamed Bhutto) in the environmental tribunal and high court, while following a complaint to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on grounds of damage to climate resilience of the Malir River ecosystem, as a result of which ADB (and UK’s FCDO) decided to discontinue their funding for the project.
(C) Two Indus River delta islands, which were part of the 1927 'protected' forest, were returned to their protected status through an official government notification obtained through the high court order after an 'illegal' government 'notification' from 2010 (excising them) was successfully challenged. Mega-developers had publicized plans to urbanize the islands locally known as Bhandaar (Bundal) and Dingi (Budho).
(D) Through its Green Chamber, CAC secured a High Court stay order against illegal sandmining in Kirthar National Park, stopping the environmental damage. This was later upheld by the court when challenged by the government in March 2025.
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