Legal can be a powerful tool to change the world. In our legal system. There are laws and regulations that intend to protect the environment, there are international agreements and the subsequence local legislation responding to the urgency of climate change. However, it won’t be impactful unless someone put it in motion.
We are looking for someone who is willing to make a great impact to create a sustainable world by leveraging the legal tools for environmental campaigning with Greenpeace East Asia.
Do you want to use your legal expertise to develop proactive legal strategies and tactics for strategic litigation? Do you want to work on litigation cases on environmental issues? and create the best practice of campaign legal work?
Please join us!
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PURPOSE and SCOPE OF THE JOB
Purpose: Campaign Legal Counsel provides integrated legal advice and service with a specialization on strategic litigation to further campaign goals and interests in Greenpeace East Asia offices, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul. Campaign Legal Counsel plays a driving role in employing strategic litigation to promote environmental justice and mitigate climate change, and to proactively and reactively defend GPEA and its employees from legal attacks.
Scope of the Job: Develop proactive legal strategies and tactics for strategic litigation, litigate cases on environmental issues, and seek legal opportunities to advance Greenpeace campaign goals, develop and promote the best practice of campaign legal work, train campaign teams to improve legal campaign knowledge, and proactively and reactively defend GPEA and its employees from legal attacks.
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Greenpeace 綠色和平是獨立的全球性環保組織,致力於以實際行動推動積極的改變,保護地球環境與世界和平。我們在全球超過55個國家、26間全國或區域辦公室進行環境保護工作。我們通過科學研究、政策倡議及和平行動,揭露全球環境問題並提出相應解決方案。
綠色和平在全球有一千多名全職員工,負責如環保政策倡導、企業遊說、環保行動、媒體聯絡、網站推廣、會員招募與服務、行政等不同範疇的工作。成為綠色和平的全職員工,你將與另外兩百多名位於台北、香港、北京、首爾、東京的綠色和平東亞分部同事以至世界各國的同事一起為全世界的環境問題出力。
保護地球的使命不能單靠綠色和平來完成,唯有結合你的力量,才能夠讓地球變得更綠色、更和平。