We use strategic legal cases to hold business and government to account when they fail to protect our environment

We have over 50 years of experience and know how to use the legal system as a lever of change, how to enforce the law, and how to win.

EDS seeks out novel and innovative litigation that can change the law for the better.

Past decisions

Environmental Defence Society v New Zealand Aluminium Smelter Ltd

2019

Environmental Defence Society v New Zealand King Salmon Company Ltd [2014] NZSC 38

2014

Port Otago Limited v Environmental Defence Society [2021] NZCA 683

2021