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CIEL Unite @cielunite.bsky.social · 7d

#BlocchiamoTutto. Against governments’ silence, against genocide, against impunity.

As workers across Italy call for a #GeneralStrike, CIEL UNITE shows its unwavering solidarity with the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, striking workers in Italy, and all those resisting genocide.

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Aug 26

Join us for a powerful story on the big screen & a debate on how the International Court of Justice’s climate ruling can reshape #ClimateJustice.
With:
👉Jule Schnakenberg (@wy4cj.bsky.social)
👉 Anne Mahrer (KlimaSeniorinnen)
👉 Elisa Morgera (UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change)

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Aug 26

🎬 Geneva premiere & debate: YUMI – The Whole World

The documentary on the Pacific youth campaign that brought the climate crisis to the world’s highest court.

🗓️ 2 Sept | 18:30|📍Cinélux, Geneva
🎟️Reserve your seat: shorturl.at/hvIE4

@ciel.org @wy4cj.bsky.social

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · Jul 24

1/ ⚖️ A groundbreaking moment for climate justice!

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change, affirming that everyone has a human right to a healthy environment.

A new legal compass has been set. 🧵

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Jul 23

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jul 3

🚨Get ready for the FIRST climate opinion from an international #HumanRights court!

🌎 The Inter-American Court will issue a historic opinion on the #ClimateEmergency that could be a game-changer for climate justice. #AOLetsGO #OpiniónConsultiva

More via @duycks.bsky.social's live updates 👇👇

🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Jul 3

⏲️in 30 mins: ⚖️🌐historic breakthrough expected for #ClimateJustice as InterAmerican Court of Human Rights delivers an authoritative judicial opinion on States' climate obligations.
👀Follow in real time via #AOLetsGo & the Court's streaming service 👇
shorturl.at/GkNfD

Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos

Canal oficial de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. 2021. Licencia Creative Commons Esta obra está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-No...

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Jul 3

⚠️ TODAY IS THE DAY⚠️

🔹 What must States do to prevent harm caused by climate change?
🔹How should States protect the most vulnerable?

🎥 WATCH the historic advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights LIVE: shorturl.at/GkNfD

📅Thu, 3 July | 16:00 UTC
@joiec.bsky.social @ciel.org

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jun 26

3/ Gender-just climate solutions are needed and it is critical for outcomes at #COP30 to recognize the fundamental role of women & girls in climate action, and especially to protect those who are working to defend the environment & #HumanRights

#DefendTheDefenders

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jun 26

🧵1/ 📢 Two weeks of #UNFCCC talks at #JuneClimateMeetings #SB62 in Bonn wrapped up with ”no urgency” and ”no meaningful progress”, while the planet burns and rights are under threat due to #ClimateChange.

Read our statement here:🔗 bit.ly/4lpYfcA

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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · Jun 26

We can't solve the triple planetary crisis without multilateral cooperation. But we have to get it right.

As the #JuneClimateMeetings come to an end, some thoughts on the need and motivation for a deep reform of the UN climate talks.

#TheCOPWeNeed #KickBigPollutersOut #FixTheUNFCCC

Ever stronger calls for better climate multilateralism at the UN climate talks in Bonn

With multilateralism under attack and an ever accelerating climate crisis, more than once I have been asked (and asked myself) why attending the UN climate talks still matters. 30 years of negotiation...

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jun 24

🚨TOMORROW AT #SB62 🚨
🕐13:00 CEST | 📍 Area 5 (escalators)

#DefendTheDefenders: No #ClimateJustice without #CivicSpace & #HumanRights!

Join us to honor the voices of 7 Environmental Human Rights Defenders silenced by repression and violence.

✊Stand in solidarity!

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Jun 23

📣 Over 200 orgs unite to demand #TheCOPWeNeed!
🌍 UN climate talks do not deliver
🏛️ Power is hoarded by polluters & wealthy nations
🔥 People on the frontlines are excluded

See our united call to #FixTheUNFCCC:
🔗http://bit.ly/45BAFoK

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Jun 23

🌍 What if the UN Climate Talks @UNFCCC truly worked - for everyone?

#TheCOPWeNeed:
✅ Majority decisions
✅ Binding accountability
✅ Open, transparent, inclusive talks
✅ No more #CorporateCapture

Today, we stand united. It is time to #FixTheUNFCCC.
🔗 bit.ly/45BAFoK

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Erika Lennon @erikalennon.bsky.social · Jun 23

@lienvandamme.bsky.social says "For 30 years, the climate negotiations have systematically failed us. The UNFCCC has failed to deliver climate justice, undermined international law & allowed the fossil fuel industry to write the rules."
📣 200+ groups have come together to say "Enough is enough"

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Jun 23

#TheCOPWeNeed:
✅ Voting when consensus blocks progress
✅ Ending corporate capture
✅ Radical transparency & accountability
✅ Upholding human rights and civic space
✅ Aligning with international law
#FixTheUNFCCC #KickBigPollutersOut

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 LIVE from #SB62: 200+ orgs launch bold proposals to reform the UN Climate Talks @UNFCCC #TheCOPWeNeed

📅 Mon, June 23 | ⏰ 4:30 PM CEST | 📍 Nairobi Room 4
🔴 Livestream: shorturl.at/ohJ0K

30 years of talks have failed to deliver #ClimateJustice. Time to #FixTheUNFCCC.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · May 21

“Chevron is turning oil and gas into tools of domination — and in Palestine, it’s doing so right now.”

Join the @palclimate.bsky.social and #BoycottChevron.

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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · Jun 17

As climate talks are happening in Bonn, Germany’s complicity in Israel’s gross violations of int'l law in Gaza cannot be ignored.

We call on Germany and all complicit States to immediately halt arms and munitions exports to Israel & end the ongoing genocide now🍉✊

www.ciel.org/german-gover

German government to host climate talks while enabling genocide - Center for International Environmental Law

BONN, Germany, June 16, 2025 — As the climate movement gathers in Bonn for the 62nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the C...

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Jun 16

📆 ⚖️ 🌱 join us today, 3pm at the 🇺🇳 #SB62 Bonn climate camp to discuss the process forward toward the effective protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in Europe under the auspices of the 🇪🇺 @coe.int!
🙏 @yeenetwork.bsky.social & @wy4cj.bsky.social for convening this timely event

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YEE Youth and Environment Europe @yeenetwork.bsky.social · Jun 13

📣 Join us at #SB62, side event: Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe.

🎤 With @samirabenali.bsky.social @duycks.bsky.social & Stephanny Ulivieri.

📍 Hosted by @yeenetwork.bsky.social @ciel.org & WYCJ

#SB62 #righttoahealthyenvironment

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · May 14

"It’s outrageous that in 2025, Europe still hasn’t legally recognized the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll as a basic human right."

Today, @coe.int46 member states missed again a key opportunity to legally protect this important right in Europe.

Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/coe-lag...

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Mar 20

▶️ 𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆: discussion of legal principles applicable to 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 as we launch of the legal commentary to the Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations
👋 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 & follow the event online: www.geneva-academy.ch/event/all-ev...
🧵some highlights 🔽

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Mar 20

🗣️ 📑 Many upcoming calls for input by 🇺🇳 UN Special Procedures Mandate Holders & institutions with direct relevance to environmental human rights...
🔗 link to all UN human rights calls for input: lnkd.in/e-puN5pe
🔹 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 -⏳ 31 March 2025;

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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · Mar 20

🆕 @cielorg.bsky.social materials on #HumanRights Based Nationally Determined Contributions #NDC (in EN/ES/FR)

🗣️ Civil Society Guidebook for advocacy
✅ Checklist: What to look out for?
⚖️ Toolkit for practitioners (from 2022 - now also in FR & ES)

🔗 All available here: www.ciel.org/project-upda...

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Mar 19

No state, including Israel, should act with impunity, undermining international law. We call on the international community for urgent action and accountability.

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