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

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

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

Bad news for the #CCS industry: 🔻World’s largest #CCS project revealed record low capture rates 🔻Backers of Acorn CCS are looking to sell up 🔻BP scrap blue Hydrogen & CCS at Teesside CCS projects falling short — technically, economically and politically.

#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. A thread:

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

✊ 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

👀 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

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.

🤫 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...

🔴 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...

🍃 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

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

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...

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 @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. A 🧵

🎉 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.

“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...

🗣️ 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

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🔔 A🧵

📢 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... A 🧵👇

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...

Happening now at #COP30: Powerful #PeoplesPlenary! As climate negotiations are wrapping up, people of the world are coming together to do the work that our governments won’t do. A space for stories, struggles, and voices across movements united in demanding #ClimateJustice.

For too long the #UNFCCC has been a race to the lowest common denominator as consensus decisionmaking enables 1 country or a small minority to block progress. The #ClimateCrisis is here & the world can't wait. #TheCOPWeNeed is one that allows for voting when consensus is impossible. Watch 👇

🔥 Spot on remarks by Colombia minister Irene Vélez Torres 🔥 UN climate talks continue ending up in lowest-common-denominator-outcomes failing to uphold legal obligations because of the way the process is built. Consensus kills ambition. Reform is urgent. #TheCOPWeNeed

📣 At #COP30, one thing is clear: The framework that guides the climate talks is falling short! Colombian minister Irene Vélez Torres goes straight to the point while explaining why #FossilFuels aren’t COP30 text: Consensus kills ambition‼️ We couldn't agree more! A 🧵

The Aarhus Convention #MOP8 negotiations just wrapped up in Geneva. The talks were arduous, but they succeeded in preserving its core mechanisms — a testament to just how vital and relevant the #AarhusConvention remains. A thread 🧵👇

TODAY at #COP30, Colombia is making history: The country is rallying nations behind real action to phase out #FossilFuels, as science and the law demand. ‼️ This is a BIG political signal: high-ambition countries are stepping up where many others aren’t. #ColombiaLibreDeFosiles A 🧵 👇

⚖️The world’s highest courts have spoken with unprecedented clarity — yet their words are missing from the #COP30 text. The science is undeniable & the law is unmistakable. The language of obligation, responsibility & justice from the #ICJAO — be reflected in the climate talks.

Scientists here at #COP30: No room for new #FossilFuels, no subsidies & an actual plan to phaseout. Additionally, there can be #NoOffsets "Forest protection cannot be used as offsets. Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels." planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/19/s...

🆕 #COP30: 29 countries supporting a #PhaseOutFossilFuels set a red line for the talks. Their message is clear: "We cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap for implementing a just, orderly & equitable transition away from fossil fuels". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#COP31 is now expected to be held in Turkey after Australia dropped its bid to host the event, in return for its minister chairing the talks. Choosing a host shouldn't be a saga. The decision should be made based on their commitment to #ClimateJustice, science & #HumanRights. A short 🧵 👇

As some countries at the #COP30 climate summit attempt to block gender-inclusive human rights language in negotiations, Nikki Reisch of @ciel.org says the controversy is a distraction to "derail the talks" and "avoid a phaseout of the fossil fuel era."

#COP30 is the first climate summit after the historic climate rulings by the International Court of Justice & the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights. It must be a turning point: ❌ No more voluntary pledges ❌ No more delay ❌ No more impunity. It’s time to close the accountability gap.

@duycks.bsky.social of @ciel.org highlights that while Article 1 of the #AarhusConvention explicitly recognizes the right to a #HealthyEnvironment, Europe lacks a legally binding instrument. Noting that political recognition alone isn’t enough, clear legal protection & remedies are needed

⚠️ #COP30: delay in #ClimateAction is now legally indefensible! "The intl. legal clarity is undeniable. It's settled law. If States don’t act to prevent harm & ensure the enjoyment of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll, they may face legal consequences," CIEL's @camillapollera.bsky.social.

"🇧🇷Brazil’s changes to the Cop format may help to move, but at the end this process always comes down to the same formula: countries hashing out the details of compromises & surrendering some of their perceived short-term national interest to the common good." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“There is growing awareness that the current international trade system #ISDS is incompatible with human rights and environmental obligations and should not just be reformed but terminated,” CIEL's @NikkiReisch. READ 👇 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

In the decade since the #ParisAgreement was signed, #BigOil has been fighting hard to protect its business, pouring billions into lobbying & supporting climate-skeptic politicians, with success. BUT, the tide is turning & "the momentum isn't with the fossil fuel industry", @erikalennon.bsky.social.

🚨 📣 Today, world's Ministers were greeted at the entrance of #COP30 with a call to sign the #BelemDeclaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels. ✊ It's high time to #EndFossilFuels, fast, fairly & forever 👇

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (read the Kyoto Protocol #CarbonMarket) was never a good idea. But like a vampire, it never seems to die. At #COP30, it's time to put it to rest forever & not allow these credits to put people & the climate at risk. #NoOffsets climatenetwork.org/resource/eco...

That’s a wrap on Day 8 of #COP30 — And what a day! From seeing the 1st potential final political agreement on sticky issues from the climate talks to the revelation that hundreds of industrial agriculture lobbyists are attending the negotiations. The day was packed 📦! A 🧵

What’s happening at #COP30 is unacceptable. A UNFCCC letter triggered a massive security escalation in Belém — intimidating Indigenous Peoples & silencing peaceful protest. Indigenous defenders are protecting the planet; they must never be sidelined in #ClimateAction. Read more 👇

🌊 TODAY at #COP30, the ocean is on the agenda. A healthy ocean is key to halting climate change. But are countries working to stop the threat of fossil fuels at sea? 📣 Here's why to meet climate targets, we must phase out offshore oil and gas👇 bit.ly/4ok8tgi 🧵/1

From #COP30 in Belém: High-level reps from Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Antigua & Barbuda—backed by Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Nepal—joined civil society & the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social Initiative (17 nations) to advance negotiating mandate for a Treaty to phase out oil, gas, and coal. A 🧵

The #LossAndDamage negotiations are expected to conclude today at #COP30. The decision must align with States' obligations to: ⭕️Prevent climate harm; ⭕️Provide reparations for climate-related harm & ⭕️Uphold #HumanRights in #ClimateAction. Yet, States seem to have forgotten it.

#MOP8 event alert: Join us to explore how the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll can strengthen the implementation of procedural rights under the convention, access to information, public participation & access to justice. ⏰ 19/11 at 1pm 🔗 unece.org/environmenta...