Lotte Leicht
@lotteleicht.bsky.social
Advocacy Director, Climate Rights International
http://cri.org
Jurist. Int'l Humanitarian, Human Rights & Criminal Law
Int'l Justice
Boards: ECCHR (Chair), Dignity,
http://cri.org
Jurist. Int'l Humanitarian, Human Rights & Criminal Law
Int'l Justice
Boards: ECCHR (Chair), Dignity,
#ClimateCrisis: Int'l law & science are clear about the urgency of ending #FossilFuel extraction/use, & transition to renewable energy
But, the global energy transition must be just
Protecting the planet must go hand in hand w protecting rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations
But, the global energy transition must be just
Protecting the planet must go hand in hand w protecting rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#ClimateCrisis: Int'l law & science are clear about the urgency of ending #FossilFuel extraction/use, & transition to renewable energy
But, the global energy transition must be just
Protecting the planet must go hand in hand w protecting rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations
But, the global energy transition must be just
Protecting the planet must go hand in hand w protecting rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations
"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours. When I speak of the body of the forest, it is neither this nor that; it is everything. It is the other humans who live within it ..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours. When I speak of the body of the forest, it is neither this nor that; it is everything. It is the other humans who live within it ..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heartfelt congratulations to the amazing 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureates
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon
Justice For Myanmar
Audrey Tang
Emergency Response Rooms
learn more about these remarkable change-makers & be inspired:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon
Justice For Myanmar
Audrey Tang
Emergency Response Rooms
learn more about these remarkable change-makers & be inspired:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Heartfelt congratulations to the amazing 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureates
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon
Justice For Myanmar
Audrey Tang
Emergency Response Rooms
learn more about these remarkable change-makers & be inspired:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon
Justice For Myanmar
Audrey Tang
Emergency Response Rooms
learn more about these remarkable change-makers & be inspired:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Following extreme events with severe impacts, public interest is generated in its causes.
One of the dominant questions is: “Was this event caused by #ClimateChange?”
This WWA guide is intended to help journalists navigate this question👇
www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...
One of the dominant questions is: “Was this event caused by #ClimateChange?”
This WWA guide is intended to help journalists navigate this question👇
www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...
September 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Following extreme events with severe impacts, public interest is generated in its causes.
One of the dominant questions is: “Was this event caused by #ClimateChange?”
This WWA guide is intended to help journalists navigate this question👇
www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...
One of the dominant questions is: “Was this event caused by #ClimateChange?”
This WWA guide is intended to help journalists navigate this question👇
www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...
📣 New report by the #UN SR on #ClimateChange that deals with the importance of a #HumanRights approach to a just energy transition, focusing on renewables and transitional minerals, is out 👇
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
📅 Stay tuned for the debate in the UN GA on October 17‼️
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
📅 Stay tuned for the debate in the UN GA on October 17‼️
September 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📣 New report by the #UN SR on #ClimateChange that deals with the importance of a #HumanRights approach to a just energy transition, focusing on renewables and transitional minerals, is out 👇
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
📅 Stay tuned for the debate in the UN GA on October 17‼️
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
📅 Stay tuned for the debate in the UN GA on October 17‼️
#ClimateJustice: The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable
Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s working with lawyers and communities across the Global South to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s working with lawyers and communities across the Global South to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
August 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#ClimateJustice: The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable
Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s working with lawyers and communities across the Global South to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s working with lawyers and communities across the Global South to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
ICJ delivered a roadmap for #ClimateJustice:
- rejecting claims by big GHG polluters that they can wreak climate havoc w impunity
- spelling out obligations to prevent, halt & repair harms to the climate system & protect rights
Where there's a right, there's a remedy
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
- rejecting claims by big GHG polluters that they can wreak climate havoc w impunity
- spelling out obligations to prevent, halt & repair harms to the climate system & protect rights
Where there's a right, there's a remedy
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
July 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
ICJ delivered a roadmap for #ClimateJustice:
- rejecting claims by big GHG polluters that they can wreak climate havoc w impunity
- spelling out obligations to prevent, halt & repair harms to the climate system & protect rights
Where there's a right, there's a remedy
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
- rejecting claims by big GHG polluters that they can wreak climate havoc w impunity
- spelling out obligations to prevent, halt & repair harms to the climate system & protect rights
Where there's a right, there's a remedy
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
#ClimateJustice: Big GHG polluters tried to hide behind the enormity of the #ClimateCrisis, claiming it's too complex to pin on any one country
ICJ said int'l law is clear: multiple wrongdoers don’t cancel each other out, & states can be held individually accountable
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
ICJ said int'l law is clear: multiple wrongdoers don’t cancel each other out, & states can be held individually accountable
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
July 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
#ClimateJustice: Big GHG polluters tried to hide behind the enormity of the #ClimateCrisis, claiming it's too complex to pin on any one country
ICJ said int'l law is clear: multiple wrongdoers don’t cancel each other out, & states can be held individually accountable
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
ICJ said int'l law is clear: multiple wrongdoers don’t cancel each other out, & states can be held individually accountable
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
Extreme heat driven by the human-induced #ClimateEmergency is endangering lives & livelihoods of urban workers in #Bangladesh. Inside garment factories, on construction sites & streets, workers are fainting, falling ill & even dying in extreme temperatures
New CRI report👇
cri.org/reports/my-b...
New CRI report👇
cri.org/reports/my-b...
July 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Extreme heat driven by the human-induced #ClimateEmergency is endangering lives & livelihoods of urban workers in #Bangladesh. Inside garment factories, on construction sites & streets, workers are fainting, falling ill & even dying in extreme temperatures
New CRI report👇
cri.org/reports/my-b...
New CRI report👇
cri.org/reports/my-b...
Mark the Calendar‼️
@CIJ_ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to #ClimateChange & the protection of the climate system & the rights of present & future generations on July 23 at 3pm in The Hague‼️
Climate Rights Intl on 2024 ICJ hearings
cri.org/icj-major-fo...
@CIJ_ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to #ClimateChange & the protection of the climate system & the rights of present & future generations on July 23 at 3pm in The Hague‼️
Climate Rights Intl on 2024 ICJ hearings
cri.org/icj-major-fo...
July 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Mark the Calendar‼️
@CIJ_ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to #ClimateChange & the protection of the climate system & the rights of present & future generations on July 23 at 3pm in The Hague‼️
Climate Rights Intl on 2024 ICJ hearings
cri.org/icj-major-fo...
@CIJ_ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to #ClimateChange & the protection of the climate system & the rights of present & future generations on July 23 at 3pm in The Hague‼️
Climate Rights Intl on 2024 ICJ hearings
cri.org/icj-major-fo...
"We reject the false dichotomy between sustainability & social responsibility on one hand, & efficiency & competitiveness on the other. On the contrary, these goals are both compatible & mutually reinforcing"
Great statement on #EU #Omnibus by ex-EU, UN, govt reps👇
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
Great statement on #EU #Omnibus by ex-EU, UN, govt reps👇
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
June 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"We reject the false dichotomy between sustainability & social responsibility on one hand, & efficiency & competitiveness on the other. On the contrary, these goals are both compatible & mutually reinforcing"
Great statement on #EU #Omnibus by ex-EU, UN, govt reps👇
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
Great statement on #EU #Omnibus by ex-EU, UN, govt reps👇
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
Decades of Deceit‼️
The Case Against Major #FossilFuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...
The Case Against Major #FossilFuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...
June 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Decades of Deceit‼️
The Case Against Major #FossilFuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...
The Case Against Major #FossilFuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...
Staggering irony: What threatens nat'l security isn’t a climate lawsuit against #FossilFuels driving #ClimateCrisis -it’s the #ClimateCrisis itself
The threat to security, economies, rights, lives & livelihoods is inaction -not #ClimateJustice & #ClimateAction
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...
The threat to security, economies, rights, lives & livelihoods is inaction -not #ClimateJustice & #ClimateAction
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...
May 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Staggering irony: What threatens nat'l security isn’t a climate lawsuit against #FossilFuels driving #ClimateCrisis -it’s the #ClimateCrisis itself
The threat to security, economies, rights, lives & livelihoods is inaction -not #ClimateJustice & #ClimateAction
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...
The threat to security, economies, rights, lives & livelihoods is inaction -not #ClimateJustice & #ClimateAction
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...
📣#UN SR Michel Forst presses TotalEnergies & its shareholders to "take immediate action to protect environmental defenders in #Uganda in the context of the Tilenga/Kingfisher & #EACOP projects"
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unece.org/sites/defaul...
Read our Climate Rights International report here
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cri.org/reports/they...
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unece.org/sites/defaul...
Read our Climate Rights International report here
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cri.org/reports/they...
May 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📣#UN SR Michel Forst presses TotalEnergies & its shareholders to "take immediate action to protect environmental defenders in #Uganda in the context of the Tilenga/Kingfisher & #EACOP projects"
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unece.org/sites/defaul...
Read our Climate Rights International report here
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cri.org/reports/they...
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unece.org/sites/defaul...
Read our Climate Rights International report here
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cri.org/reports/they...
‼️The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of #Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) raises serious concerns about prison conditions and psychiatric care practices across Europe.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
‼️The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of #Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) raises serious concerns about prison conditions and psychiatric care practices across Europe.
rm.coe.int/34th-general...
rm.coe.int/34th-general...
“Coal plants are old and dirty, uncompetitive and unreliable. The Trump adm is stuck in the past, trying to make utility customers pay more for yesterday’s energy. Instead, it should be doing all it can to build the electricity grid of the future”
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Coal plants are old and dirty, uncompetitive and unreliable. The Trump adm is stuck in the past, trying to make utility customers pay more for yesterday’s energy. Instead, it should be doing all it can to build the electricity grid of the future”
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
🚨 The EP just decided to treat #Omnibus "stop-the-clock" proposal as urgent
⏳ Final vote set for April 3. Then EP & EU states will negotiate final text
📢 Why it matters? The Commission’s troubling Omnibus proposal risks undermining key #GreenDeal laws before they’ve even been tested
🔎 CRI's take👇
⏳ Final vote set for April 3. Then EP & EU states will negotiate final text
📢 Why it matters? The Commission’s troubling Omnibus proposal risks undermining key #GreenDeal laws before they’ve even been tested
🔎 CRI's take👇
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🚨 The EP just decided to treat #Omnibus "stop-the-clock" proposal as urgent
⏳ Final vote set for April 3. Then EP & EU states will negotiate final text
📢 Why it matters? The Commission’s troubling Omnibus proposal risks undermining key #GreenDeal laws before they’ve even been tested
🔎 CRI's take👇
⏳ Final vote set for April 3. Then EP & EU states will negotiate final text
📢 Why it matters? The Commission’s troubling Omnibus proposal risks undermining key #GreenDeal laws before they’ve even been tested
🔎 CRI's take👇
As Trump seeks to purge the Federal Govt of common decency, dignity, & facts to mirror his appalling & cruel policies, agencies flag hundreds of words to limit or avoid, incl: advocacy, diversity, clean energy, climate science, pollution, injustice, victims ...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
As Trump seeks to purge the Federal Govt of common decency, dignity, & facts to mirror his appalling & cruel policies, agencies flag hundreds of words to limit or avoid, incl: advocacy, diversity, clean energy, climate science, pollution, injustice, victims ...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Trump Administration "doesn’t have a plan to advance science, they have a plan to remove obstacles for the oil & gas industry. They want to return to an era where kids have polio, rivers are on fire & cities are blanketed by pollution.”
#ClimateActionNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateActionNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
February 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Trump Administration "doesn’t have a plan to advance science, they have a plan to remove obstacles for the oil & gas industry. They want to return to an era where kids have polio, rivers are on fire & cities are blanketed by pollution.”
#ClimateActionNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateActionNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A wake-Up Call: Unite‼️
"The US VP made it clear: decades of the old relationship btw Europe & America are ending. From now on, things will be different. Europe needs to adjust to that"
Watch #Ukraine President, Zelenskyy's, #MSC2025 speech here👇
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Pic via @MunSecConf
"The US VP made it clear: decades of the old relationship btw Europe & America are ending. From now on, things will be different. Europe needs to adjust to that"
Watch #Ukraine President, Zelenskyy's, #MSC2025 speech here👇
x.com/MunSecConf/s...
Pic via @MunSecConf
February 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A wake-Up Call: Unite‼️
"The US VP made it clear: decades of the old relationship btw Europe & America are ending. From now on, things will be different. Europe needs to adjust to that"
Watch #Ukraine President, Zelenskyy's, #MSC2025 speech here👇
x.com/MunSecConf/s...
Pic via @MunSecConf
"The US VP made it clear: decades of the old relationship btw Europe & America are ending. From now on, things will be different. Europe needs to adjust to that"
Watch #Ukraine President, Zelenskyy's, #MSC2025 speech here👇
x.com/MunSecConf/s...
Pic via @MunSecConf
What a difference a day makes!
Yesterday, the US VP stunned #MSC2025 w an offensive & bizarre lecture
Today, #Ukraine’s President brought everyone back to reality w a stark reminder of Russia’s war of aggression & the urgency & importance of European unity defending itself, int'l law & core rights
Yesterday, the US VP stunned #MSC2025 w an offensive & bizarre lecture
Today, #Ukraine’s President brought everyone back to reality w a stark reminder of Russia’s war of aggression & the urgency & importance of European unity defending itself, int'l law & core rights
February 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What a difference a day makes!
Yesterday, the US VP stunned #MSC2025 w an offensive & bizarre lecture
Today, #Ukraine’s President brought everyone back to reality w a stark reminder of Russia’s war of aggression & the urgency & importance of European unity defending itself, int'l law & core rights
Yesterday, the US VP stunned #MSC2025 w an offensive & bizarre lecture
Today, #Ukraine’s President brought everyone back to reality w a stark reminder of Russia’s war of aggression & the urgency & importance of European unity defending itself, int'l law & core rights
At MunichSecurityConference Chairman Christoph Heusgen delivers a powerful opening message, emphasizing that 'rule of law' not 'rule of the strongest' must prevail, highlighting the importance of int'l law, institutions & courts in upholding #HumanRights, #ClimateAction, fair trade & global security
February 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
At MunichSecurityConference Chairman Christoph Heusgen delivers a powerful opening message, emphasizing that 'rule of law' not 'rule of the strongest' must prevail, highlighting the importance of int'l law, institutions & courts in upholding #HumanRights, #ClimateAction, fair trade & global security
New alarming UNICEF report: At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, incl heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods & droughts.
The #ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
www.unicef.org/eca/press-re...
The #ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
www.unicef.org/eca/press-re...
January 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New alarming UNICEF report: At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, incl heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods & droughts.
The #ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
www.unicef.org/eca/press-re...
The #ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
www.unicef.org/eca/press-re...
#Saydnaya prison has been freed!
Tens of thousands were disappeared, tortured & killed in the regime's vast network of prisons & detention centers
My courageous #Syrian colleagues, many of them torture survivors, never stopped demanding freedom & justice
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
Tens of thousands were disappeared, tortured & killed in the regime's vast network of prisons & detention centers
My courageous #Syrian colleagues, many of them torture survivors, never stopped demanding freedom & justice
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
December 8, 2024 at 10:05 AM
#Saydnaya prison has been freed!
Tens of thousands were disappeared, tortured & killed in the regime's vast network of prisons & detention centers
My courageous #Syrian colleagues, many of them torture survivors, never stopped demanding freedom & justice
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
Tens of thousands were disappeared, tortured & killed in the regime's vast network of prisons & detention centers
My courageous #Syrian colleagues, many of them torture survivors, never stopped demanding freedom & justice
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
📣#ClimateChange science is not a matter of belief.
It’s as real and as unyielding as gravity itself.
For anyone doubting its reality, the consequences are as sure as a fall from a high window—whether you believe in gravity or not, you will hit the ground.
www.science.org/content/arti...
It’s as real and as unyielding as gravity itself.
For anyone doubting its reality, the consequences are as sure as a fall from a high window—whether you believe in gravity or not, you will hit the ground.
www.science.org/content/arti...
December 1, 2024 at 4:47 PM
📣#ClimateChange science is not a matter of belief.
It’s as real and as unyielding as gravity itself.
For anyone doubting its reality, the consequences are as sure as a fall from a high window—whether you believe in gravity or not, you will hit the ground.
www.science.org/content/arti...
It’s as real and as unyielding as gravity itself.
For anyone doubting its reality, the consequences are as sure as a fall from a high window—whether you believe in gravity or not, you will hit the ground.
www.science.org/content/arti...