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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 22h

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism

Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism

Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New CRI Report: “Before It’s Too Late: Curbing Cattle-Driven Deforestation & Rights Abuses in #Brazil”

📣Fashion & footwear brands linked to harms through their leather supply chains

Brazil has the tools to clean up its cattle sector. Govt & industry leaders must act now‼️
cri.org/reports/befo...

Before It’s Too Late

How Brazil Can Curb Cattle-Driven Deforestation and Abuses—and How Global Brands Should Help

cri.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

⚖️ #ECtHR - Müllner vs. Austria

Mex Müllner leidet an einer Krankheit, die sich bei Hitze verschlimmert. Deshalb hat er vor fünf Jahren die Republik Österreich wegen ihrer Klimapolitik verklagt. Nun rückt die Entscheidung näher.

⚖️ #ClimateJustice

www.zeit.de/2025/43/klim...

Klimaklage gegen Österreich: Müllner vs. Austria

Mex Müllner leidet an einer Krankheit, die sich bei Hitze verschlimmert. Deshalb hat er vor fünf Jahren die Republik Österreich wegen ihrer Klimapolitik verklagt.

www.zeit.de

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

Spot on: “I wish that COPs were less bullshit, more concrete results" Panama's Environment Minister

#ICJ AO is clear; #ClimateAction is a legal obligation

Time to end consensus-based COP decision-making that lets big polluters veto urgent collective action
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/08/p...

Panama environment minister backs calls for reform of UN climate process

Panama's environment minister Juan Carlos Navarro said the decision-making process at climate COPs should be reformed.

www.climatechangenews.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

📣 #ClimateCrisis is a global #HumanRights

As global temperatures rise, so too does the urgency of protecting those most at risk, inc pregnant people & generations to come. No worker should have to choose btw a paycheck & a healthy pregnancy
climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/overheated...

Overheated and Underprotected: The Risks of Extreme Heat for Pregnant Workers

By Cara Schulte

climaterightsinternational.substack.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New CRI Report: “Before It’s Too Late: Curbing Cattle-Driven Deforestation & Rights Abuses in #Brazil”

📣Fashion & footwear brands linked to harms through their leather supply chains

Brazil has the tools to clean up its cattle sector. Govt & industry leaders must act now‼️
cri.org/reports/befo...

Before It’s Too Late

How Brazil Can Curb Cattle-Driven Deforestation and Abuses—and How Global Brands Should Help

cri.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

⚖️ #ECtHR - Müllner vs. Austria

Mex Müllner leidet an einer Krankheit, die sich bei Hitze verschlimmert. Deshalb hat er vor fünf Jahren die Republik Österreich wegen ihrer Klimapolitik verklagt. Nun rückt die Entscheidung näher.

⚖️ #ClimateJustice

www.zeit.de/2025/43/klim...

Klimaklage gegen Österreich: Müllner vs. Austria

Mex Müllner leidet an einer Krankheit, die sich bei Hitze verschlimmert. Deshalb hat er vor fünf Jahren die Republik Österreich wegen ihrer Klimapolitik verklagt.

www.zeit.de

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

Spot on: “I wish that COPs were less bullshit, more concrete results" Panama's Environment Minister

#ICJ AO is clear; #ClimateAction is a legal obligation

Time to end consensus-based COP decision-making that lets big polluters veto urgent collective action
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/08/p...

Panama environment minister backs calls for reform of UN climate process

Panama's environment minister Juan Carlos Navarro said the decision-making process at climate COPs should be reformed.

www.climatechangenews.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 2d

📣 #ClimateCrisis is a global #HumanRights

As global temperatures rise, so too does the urgency of protecting those most at risk, inc pregnant people & generations to come. No worker should have to choose btw a paycheck & a healthy pregnancy
climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/overheated...

Overheated and Underprotected: The Risks of Extreme Heat for Pregnant Workers

By Cara Schulte

climaterightsinternational.substack.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 9d

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-...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 9d

Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 👏👏👏

You took on the #ClimateCrisis, & carried the voices & lived experiences of frontline communities to the #ICJ & you won‼️

www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

2025 Right Livelihood Laureates Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon | Lotte Leicht

✨ Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award – the “Alternative Nobel Prize”! 👏👏👏 You took on the gr...

www.linkedin.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 11d

Trump & his enablers do not care about your kids & grandkids

By expanding coal mining -the most GHG polluting industry- they are turbo-charging the #ClimateCrisis threatening rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations in the US & around the world
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry

White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 13d

Ridiculous! Banning words won’t change reality

US EnergyDept adds “climate change” “green” “decarbonization” to list of forbidden terms

Censorship can't erase facts: the #ClimateCrisis is real, it’s human-made & deadly

Silencing science=endangering lives
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

subscriber.politicopro.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 8d

#ClimateJustice: Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy - but anti-climate litigation is also on the rise incl against activists & journalists.

Fourth report by #UNEP & Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today

Nairobi, 3 October 2025 – Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before, according to a report published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Cen...

www.unep.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 8d

#ClimateJustice: Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy - but anti-climate litigation is also on the rise incl against activists & journalists.

Fourth report by #UNEP & Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today

Nairobi, 3 October 2025 – Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before, according to a report published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Cen...

www.unep.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 9d

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-...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 9d

Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 👏👏👏

You took on the #ClimateCrisis, & carried the voices & lived experiences of frontline communities to the #ICJ & you won‼️

www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

2025 Right Livelihood Laureates Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon | Lotte Leicht

✨ Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award – the “Alternative Nobel Prize”! 👏👏👏 You took on the gr...

www.linkedin.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 11d

Trump & his enablers do not care about your kids & grandkids

By expanding coal mining -the most GHG polluting industry- they are turbo-charging the #ClimateCrisis threatening rights, lives & livelihoods of present & future generations in the US & around the world
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry

White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The problem that we’re now facing is that there are traditional rightwing parties that perhaps don’t deny the scientific reality, but which act and behave as if #ClimateChange doesn’t exist."

Pedro Sánchez, Spanish Prime Minister
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds

Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 13d

Another night & day of horror,death & destruction in #Ukraine

#Russia’s ruthless #WarCrimes continue w utter impunity. Families torn apart. Cities shattered. Lives stolen

Putin is an #ICC fugitive wanted for atrocity crimes. His criminality must never be normalized
www.euronews.com/2025/09/28/a...

Four killed in Kyiv, including a child, in overnight Russian attacks

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Russia for the new wave of attacks, which killed at least four in Kyiv, including a child, and accused them of deliberately targeting civilian positions...

www.euronews.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 24d

“The causal chain from #FossilFuel burning to rising heat & increased mortality is undeniable”

Research concludes human-made global warming ‘caused 2 in 3 heat deaths in Europe this summer’

The #ClimateCrisis impact is devastating

Time for #climateJustice ‼️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’

Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases

www.theguardian.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 26d

They watched #ClimateChange ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

Powerful piece about how Pacific Islands students brought the biggest global #HumanRights crisis, the climate crisis, to the world's highest court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law

www.nytimes.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Apr 2

What Are the Rights of Nature?

Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide — to secure legal rights for ecosystems and other parts of the natural world.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0204202...

What Are the Rights of Nature? - Inside Climate News

Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide—to secure legal rights for ecosystems and other parts of the natural world.

insideclimatenews.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Aug 8

The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible.

Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...

Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change and international law. In clear legal terms, the Court confi...

cri.org

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Sep 5

#ClimateCrisis:"the more we burn #FossilFuels, the harder it is”

📣New research shows links btw human-caused warming & rising fire risks in Europe & devastating fires in Spain & Portugal this summer killing at least 8 people & displacing tens of thousands👇

insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202...

Fossil-Fueled Climate Heating Set the Stage for Devastating Fires in Spain and Portugal This Summer - Inside Climate News

New research shows the links between human-caused warming and rising fire risks in Europe, and offers a path toward a more resilient future.

insideclimatenews.org

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