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#UNEA7 just wrapped up two weeks of negotiations — and the outcome is a mix of progress, setbacks, and 11th-hour compromises. But there was also plenty of reason for hope.
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We made major progress this year, thanks to you:
✅Landmark climate justice rulings
✅Major wins for the plastics treaty
✅New accountability for corporate polluters
✅Stronger remedies for communities harmed
⏳ Only days left to DOUBLE your impact for environmental justice: https://bit.ly/4aSGBvV
✅Landmark climate justice rulings
✅Major wins for the plastics treaty
✅New accountability for corporate polluters
✅Stronger remedies for communities harmed
⏳ Only days left to DOUBLE your impact for environmental justice: https://bit.ly/4aSGBvV
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We made major progress this year, thanks to you:
✅Landmark climate justice rulings
✅Major wins for the plastics treaty
✅New accountability for corporate polluters
✅Stronger remedies for communities harmed
⏳ Only days left to DOUBLE your impact for environmental justice: https://bit.ly/4aSGBvV
✅Landmark climate justice rulings
✅Major wins for the plastics treaty
✅New accountability for corporate polluters
✅Stronger remedies for communities harmed
⏳ Only days left to DOUBLE your impact for environmental justice: https://bit.ly/4aSGBvV
The fertilizer industry doesn’t want you to know ammonia is fueling the next petrochemical boom. CIEL uncovered how ammonia production drives environmental racism, agriculture, and the climate crisis. Communities are fighting back.
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/CIEL2025ImpactReport
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/CIEL2025ImpactReport
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The fertilizer industry doesn’t want you to know ammonia is fueling the next petrochemical boom. CIEL uncovered how ammonia production drives environmental racism, agriculture, and the climate crisis. Communities are fighting back.
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/CIEL2025ImpactReport
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/CIEL2025ImpactReport
Wildfires are destroying homes across Southern California, but the crisis doesn’t end when the flames go out. Insurers are pulling coverage, raising premiums, and denying claims while investing in fossil fuels fueling climate change. Support CIEL to hold insurers accountable: https://bit.ly/3MN7zuX
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wildfires are destroying homes across Southern California, but the crisis doesn’t end when the flames go out. Insurers are pulling coverage, raising premiums, and denying claims while investing in fossil fuels fueling climate change. Support CIEL to hold insurers accountable: https://bit.ly/3MN7zuX
INC 5.2’s Plastics Treaty talks were shaped by fossil fuel pressure. But a majority of countries are demanding real change, and CIEL is with them.
We can’t let polluters write our planet’s future.
Support the fight for a plastics-free future: https://bit.ly/3KRxhOu
We can’t let polluters write our planet’s future.
Support the fight for a plastics-free future: https://bit.ly/3KRxhOu
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
INC 5.2’s Plastics Treaty talks were shaped by fossil fuel pressure. But a majority of countries are demanding real change, and CIEL is with them.
We can’t let polluters write our planet’s future.
Support the fight for a plastics-free future: https://bit.ly/3KRxhOu
We can’t let polluters write our planet’s future.
Support the fight for a plastics-free future: https://bit.ly/3KRxhOu
#UNEA7 just wrapped up two weeks of negotiations — and the outcome is a mix of progress, setbacks, and 11th-hour compromises. But there was also plenty of reason for hope.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#UNEA7 just wrapped up two weeks of negotiations — and the outcome is a mix of progress, setbacks, and 11th-hour compromises. But there was also plenty of reason for hope.
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On #HumanRightsDefendersDay, we stand with those fighting to protect the Santurbán páramo in #Colombia from mining, as they face continued threats.
Governments and companies must respect and protect the rights of environmental defenders.
Learn more via
@miningwatch.bsky.social 👇 shorturl.at/O9Jyt
Governments and companies must respect and protect the rights of environmental defenders.
Learn more via
@miningwatch.bsky.social 👇 shorturl.at/O9Jyt
One year after reporting threats, the Santurbán Committee questions Aris Mining’s response and the Canadian government’s silence | Mining Watch Canada
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December 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
On #HumanRightsDefendersDay, we stand with those fighting to protect the Santurbán páramo in #Colombia from mining, as they face continued threats.
Governments and companies must respect and protect the rights of environmental defenders.
Learn more via
@miningwatch.bsky.social 👇 shorturl.at/O9Jyt
Governments and companies must respect and protect the rights of environmental defenders.
Learn more via
@miningwatch.bsky.social 👇 shorturl.at/O9Jyt
✊ On Human Rights Day, stand with environmental defenders who protect the land, water, and climate we all depend on.
⚖️ The Inter-American Court of Human Rights confirmed it:
Defending the planet is a human right. States must protect it.
Support our work to #DefendTheDefenders 👉 bit.ly/48LEWpx
⚖️ The Inter-American Court of Human Rights confirmed it:
Defending the planet is a human right. States must protect it.
Support our work to #DefendTheDefenders 👉 bit.ly/48LEWpx
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
✊ On Human Rights Day, stand with environmental defenders who protect the land, water, and climate we all depend on.
⚖️ The Inter-American Court of Human Rights confirmed it:
Defending the planet is a human right. States must protect it.
Support our work to #DefendTheDefenders 👉 bit.ly/48LEWpx
⚖️ The Inter-American Court of Human Rights confirmed it:
Defending the planet is a human right. States must protect it.
Support our work to #DefendTheDefenders 👉 bit.ly/48LEWpx
👀 Do you have potatoes, apples, honey, or salt in your kitchen?
‼️ Microplastics have been found in all of these foods.
Avoiding toxic plastics shouldn’t be on you. We need systemic change.
👉 Help us hold polluters accountable and keep plastics out of our food and bodies: bit.ly/4pYnCV8
‼️ Microplastics have been found in all of these foods.
Avoiding toxic plastics shouldn’t be on you. We need systemic change.
👉 Help us hold polluters accountable and keep plastics out of our food and bodies: bit.ly/4pYnCV8
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
👀 Do you have potatoes, apples, honey, or salt in your kitchen?
‼️ Microplastics have been found in all of these foods.
Avoiding toxic plastics shouldn’t be on you. We need systemic change.
👉 Help us hold polluters accountable and keep plastics out of our food and bodies: bit.ly/4pYnCV8
‼️ Microplastics have been found in all of these foods.
Avoiding toxic plastics shouldn’t be on you. We need systemic change.
👉 Help us hold polluters accountable and keep plastics out of our food and bodies: bit.ly/4pYnCV8
Thread from CIEL's geoengineering campaign manager, @mmchch.bsky.social on African ministers' leadership on solar geoengineering 🔽
As UNEA7 opens in Nairobi @theguardian.com Editorial spotlights African Ministers’ leadership in calling for a Non Use Agreement to put extreme Solar Geoengineering technologies permanently off the table, and refocus on real solutions to the climate crisis: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thread from CIEL's geoengineering campaign manager, @mmchch.bsky.social on African ministers' leadership on solar geoengineering 🔽
Plastic pollution starts long before it hits our oceans. It starts at production — and it’s poisoning people and the planet. 🧵👇
That’s why CIEL is fighting for a strong, legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production, protects communities, and holds polluters accountable.
That’s why CIEL is fighting for a strong, legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production, protects communities, and holds polluters accountable.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Plastic pollution starts long before it hits our oceans. It starts at production — and it’s poisoning people and the planet. 🧵👇
That’s why CIEL is fighting for a strong, legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production, protects communities, and holds polluters accountable.
That’s why CIEL is fighting for a strong, legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production, protects communities, and holds polluters accountable.
Reposted by Center for International Environmental Law
🤫 Why is the EU pushing industry's #FalseSolutions like risky, costly #CCS when better alternatives exist?
Welcome to the #ICMForum, a club of the #FossilFuel industry designing EU’s key energy policies.
#ICMForum meets in Pau 🇫🇷October 10-11
Read all about it 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonCou...
Welcome to the #ICMForum, a club of the #FossilFuel industry designing EU’s key energy policies.
#ICMForum meets in Pau 🇫🇷October 10-11
Read all about it 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonCou...
The Carbon Coup revisited
As the ICM Forum gears up to meet in Pau, France, 10-11 October, find out how the European Commission is allowing this close-knit club of the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters to shape key ...
corporateeurope.org
October 9, 2024 at 8:47 AM
🤫 Why is the EU pushing industry's #FalseSolutions like risky, costly #CCS when better alternatives exist?
Welcome to the #ICMForum, a club of the #FossilFuel industry designing EU’s key energy policies.
#ICMForum meets in Pau 🇫🇷October 10-11
Read all about it 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonCou...
Welcome to the #ICMForum, a club of the #FossilFuel industry designing EU’s key energy policies.
#ICMForum meets in Pau 🇫🇷October 10-11
Read all about it 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonCou...
Reposted by Center for International Environmental Law
🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001.
After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum.
Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum.
Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001.
After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum.
Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum.
Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
🍃 Nature has rights. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights made it clear in its historic #AdvisoryOpinion on the climate emergency.
👇 An analysis by attorney Luisa Gómez unpacks what this means for those working to protect ecosystems and advance #ClimateJustice.
🔗 READ HERE: bit.ly/RoNat25
👇 An analysis by attorney Luisa Gómez unpacks what this means for those working to protect ecosystems and advance #ClimateJustice.
🔗 READ HERE: bit.ly/RoNat25
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🍃 Nature has rights. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights made it clear in its historic #AdvisoryOpinion on the climate emergency.
👇 An analysis by attorney Luisa Gómez unpacks what this means for those working to protect ecosystems and advance #ClimateJustice.
🔗 READ HERE: bit.ly/RoNat25
👇 An analysis by attorney Luisa Gómez unpacks what this means for those working to protect ecosystems and advance #ClimateJustice.
🔗 READ HERE: bit.ly/RoNat25
I grew up in a redlined Black neighborhood fenced in by petrochemical plants. Asthma was normal. Cancer was normal. Losing people too soon was normal. No community should be a sacrifice zone.
CIEL is helping frontline communities fight back. ✊🏽 Will you stand with us?
👉 Give today bit.ly/3Mj1A0I
CIEL is helping frontline communities fight back. ✊🏽 Will you stand with us?
👉 Give today bit.ly/3Mj1A0I
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I grew up in a redlined Black neighborhood fenced in by petrochemical plants. Asthma was normal. Cancer was normal. Losing people too soon was normal. No community should be a sacrifice zone.
CIEL is helping frontline communities fight back. ✊🏽 Will you stand with us?
👉 Give today bit.ly/3Mj1A0I
CIEL is helping frontline communities fight back. ✊🏽 Will you stand with us?
👉 Give today bit.ly/3Mj1A0I
In just 10 years, #ClimateLitigation has evolved into a global accountability system recognised by the world's highest courts.
Rulings have led to govs. amending laws & ditching #FossilFuel projects. Read Climate Litigation Network's report 👇 climatelitigationnetwork.org/TenYearsClim...
Rulings have led to govs. amending laws & ditching #FossilFuel projects. Read Climate Litigation Network's report 👇 climatelitigationnetwork.org/TenYearsClim...
Ten years of climate litigation - Climate Litigation Network
report: laying the foundations for our shared future How ten years of climate cases built a legal architecture for climate protection President of PISFCC, Cynthia Houniuhi, speaks at the Peace Palace,...
climatelitigationnetwork.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In just 10 years, #ClimateLitigation has evolved into a global accountability system recognised by the world's highest courts.
Rulings have led to govs. amending laws & ditching #FossilFuel projects. Read Climate Litigation Network's report 👇 climatelitigationnetwork.org/TenYearsClim...
Rulings have led to govs. amending laws & ditching #FossilFuel projects. Read Climate Litigation Network's report 👇 climatelitigationnetwork.org/TenYearsClim...
Over 160 civil society organizations are calling for real leadership in the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations.
The next Chair must restore trust, keep the process transparent, and shut the door on vested interests.
A strong treaty depends on it.
READ: bit.ly/4peJZps
The next Chair must restore trust, keep the process transparent, and shut the door on vested interests.
A strong treaty depends on it.
READ: bit.ly/4peJZps
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Over 160 civil society organizations are calling for real leadership in the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations.
The next Chair must restore trust, keep the process transparent, and shut the door on vested interests.
A strong treaty depends on it.
READ: bit.ly/4peJZps
The next Chair must restore trust, keep the process transparent, and shut the door on vested interests.
A strong treaty depends on it.
READ: bit.ly/4peJZps
🌱 🇪🇺 The @coe.int’s Ad hoc Multidisciplinary Group on the Environment #GME reconvenes this week - The session focuses on environmental rights and democracy.
👀 CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social & @camillapollera.bsky.social will be joining the talks to ensure that #EnvironmentalJustice remains central.
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👀 CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social & @camillapollera.bsky.social will be joining the talks to ensure that #EnvironmentalJustice remains central.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🌱 🇪🇺 The @coe.int’s Ad hoc Multidisciplinary Group on the Environment #GME reconvenes this week - The session focuses on environmental rights and democracy.
👀 CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social & @camillapollera.bsky.social will be joining the talks to ensure that #EnvironmentalJustice remains central.
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👀 CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social & @camillapollera.bsky.social will be joining the talks to ensure that #EnvironmentalJustice remains central.
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🎉 Big news🎉
Our very own @lilifuhr.bsky.social has been selected as one of the @table.media's Top 100 voices in the climate space.
🌱⚡️This recognition reflects a shared mission: protecting our planet and accelerating real climate solutions, starting with a #FossilFuelsPhaseOut.
Our very own @lilifuhr.bsky.social has been selected as one of the @table.media's Top 100 voices in the climate space.
🌱⚡️This recognition reflects a shared mission: protecting our planet and accelerating real climate solutions, starting with a #FossilFuelsPhaseOut.
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🎉 Big news🎉
Our very own @lilifuhr.bsky.social has been selected as one of the @table.media's Top 100 voices in the climate space.
🌱⚡️This recognition reflects a shared mission: protecting our planet and accelerating real climate solutions, starting with a #FossilFuelsPhaseOut.
Our very own @lilifuhr.bsky.social has been selected as one of the @table.media's Top 100 voices in the climate space.
🌱⚡️This recognition reflects a shared mission: protecting our planet and accelerating real climate solutions, starting with a #FossilFuelsPhaseOut.
“With uneven global impacts predicted, deployment [of solar geoengineering] would create winners & losers, undermining the rights of billions of people & raising the central question of who gets to control the global thermostat,” CIEL's @mmchch.bsky.social.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Government ‘not in favour’ of controversial efforts to dim the sun
The controversial topic was highlighted in a Parliament debate
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“With uneven global impacts predicted, deployment [of solar geoengineering] would create winners & losers, undermining the rights of billions of people & raising the central question of who gets to control the global thermostat,” CIEL's @mmchch.bsky.social.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
🗣️ Indigenous Peoples have long said: climate inaction threatens fundamental rights.
#AdvisoryOpinions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice now confirm it.
🔎 Learn what this means for #ClimateJustice and Indigenous Peoples’ rights 👉 shorturl.at/NsBLm
#AdvisoryOpinions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice now confirm it.
🔎 Learn what this means for #ClimateJustice and Indigenous Peoples’ rights 👉 shorturl.at/NsBLm
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🗣️ Indigenous Peoples have long said: climate inaction threatens fundamental rights.
#AdvisoryOpinions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice now confirm it.
🔎 Learn what this means for #ClimateJustice and Indigenous Peoples’ rights 👉 shorturl.at/NsBLm
#AdvisoryOpinions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice now confirm it.
🔎 Learn what this means for #ClimateJustice and Indigenous Peoples’ rights 👉 shorturl.at/NsBLm
Reposted by Center for International Environmental Law
1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.
🚨 At #COP30’s closing plenary, Colombia refused to approve the decision on the mitigation work programme unless fossil fuel language was included.
Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🚨 At #COP30’s closing plenary, Colombia refused to approve the decision on the mitigation work programme unless fossil fuel language was included.
Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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📢 The climate talks #COP30 in Belém conclude with a largely empty deal:
❌ No halt to deforestation,
❌ No fossil fuel phaseout, and
❌ No climate finance at the scale the crisis demands.
Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/cop30-f...
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❌ No halt to deforestation,
❌ No fossil fuel phaseout, and
❌ No climate finance at the scale the crisis demands.
Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/cop30-f...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
📢 The climate talks #COP30 in Belém conclude with a largely empty deal:
❌ No halt to deforestation,
❌ No fossil fuel phaseout, and
❌ No climate finance at the scale the crisis demands.
Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/cop30-f...
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❌ No halt to deforestation,
❌ No fossil fuel phaseout, and
❌ No climate finance at the scale the crisis demands.
Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/cop30-f...
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After 12 days of floods & outages — & even a fire in the venue — at #COP30, the message is unmistakable: the world is burning & we have only a brief window to decide what rises from the smoke.
⏰ #COP30 closing plenary is about to start ⏰
Tune in: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_112358...
⏰ #COP30 closing plenary is about to start ⏰
Tune in: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_112358...
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
After 12 days of floods & outages — & even a fire in the venue — at #COP30, the message is unmistakable: the world is burning & we have only a brief window to decide what rises from the smoke.
⏰ #COP30 closing plenary is about to start ⏰
Tune in: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_112358...
⏰ #COP30 closing plenary is about to start ⏰
Tune in: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_112358...