Env defender, Julio Santoyo in Michoacán, like many others in his community, is at the frontlines of combatting illegal #deforestation despite threats to their lives. Our work in tackling avocado-driven deforestation in Mexico could not take place without the work of defenders such as Santoyo. (1/3)

As we close out on #COP30 this week, @danielwilkinson.bsky.social's recent op-ed on Carta Capital discussing climate threats in host country #Brazil is a must read! Portuguese: lnkd.in/d4GchG5H English translation: cri.org/oped-illegal...

What does the historic #ICJ advisory opinion mean for #EACOP — the longest heated oil pipeline in the world? CRI's @lotteleicht.bsky.social and @felixhorne.bsky.social write about the controversial pipeline stretching across #Uganda and #Tanzania ⤵️ substack.com/home/post/p-...

Excited to have Yahoo! Japan feature Legal Director @llakhdhir.bsky.social 's powerful reflections, as published on our Substack here: climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/the-law-is... To subscribe for free: climaterightsinternational.substack.com news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/fed...

#Brazil's community conservation areas were built on a simple but revolutionary idea: protect the forest by protecting the people whose livelihoods and identities depend on it. These areas link collective land rights, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental protection (1/2)

"The journey upriver was also a journey into #Brazil’s climate paradox". Researcher @sarahlsax.bsky.social writes for CRI's Substack on her field research in Pará and findings of deforestation, violence & more in community conservation areas: climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/brazils-cl...

The Indigenous-led protests at #COP30 highlight the urgent need for forest protection and human rights. Hear from the voices of #Brazil’s community conservation areas. 🎥 youtu.be/K_5DX1Xmdcc?... 📖 lnkd.in/ggKwgETB #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #Amazon #SocioBioeconomy

Read the full report at --> cri.org/reports/brok... 5/5

⛏️ Nickel ore exported to China was processed into nickel sulfate, a high-quality nickel often used in EV batteries, and ferronickel, used in the production of stainless steel, then re-exported to third countries, including Brazil and India 4/5

🚙 Chinese companies that sourced nickel from MMDC have been documented in electric vehicle supply chains, including JSW MG Motor India Private’s supply chain for its Windsor EV and Comet EV models 3/5

The auto industry is implicated in this damaging nickel supply chain. According to the report: 🔋 One mining operation studied reportedly supplies battery grade minerals to Panasonic, a major battery manufacturer that produces batteries for Tesla and Toyota 2/5

A new report from @climaterights.bsky.social documents the human rights, environmental, and climate impacts of nickel mining in the Caraga Region, home to more mines than any other part of the Philippines. 1/5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf6H...

If you missed this last week, check out Researcher @sarahlsax.bsky.social's op-ed on the recent Bill Gates memo. Sax writes in @theatlantic.com on what the memo ignores as well as the uncomfortable truths we must accept www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

During the final week of #COP30 a mini 🧵 about land and forest rights ⤵️ Earlier this month, the COP30 Forest and Land Tenure Pledge secured US $1.8 billion to strengthen the land and forest rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant peoples. (1/3)

We joined @ciel.org and 170+ orgs calling on the #UNFCCC to defend #IndigenousPeoples rights and the rights to protest at #COP30. Read 🧵 below ⤵️ climaterights.org/wp-content/u...

Tune in tomorrow at #COP30 as CRI's @kristashennum.bsky.social joins experts from #Indonesia's Supreme Court, Ministry for Env, the #UNFCCC & ICEL to unpack challenges, best practices, & the future of climate-responsive enforcement in Indonesia. 📅 15 Nov 🕑 14:45 GMT-3 Livestream: bit.ly/4oGkLzN

« The inequities baked into global finance, agribusiness expansion, and fossil-fuel dependence are not peripheral to the climate crisis; they define it. Without confronting those asymmetries, even human welfare risks becoming another hollow metric. »

Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global energy transition, with nickel mining driving deforestation and pollution. @mongabay.com on @climaterights.bsky.social 's new report 👇

Wading into this belatedly but look: there was a whole LOT Gates got wrong and many reasons to question his motives. But there were some uncomfortable truths I think a lot of people glossed over www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

🚨 We joined 1,000+ orgs from over 100 countries asking #COP30 govts to stop treating #ClimateAction like a numbers game and make a #JustTransition happen. Put people before profit. Read the open letter here ⤵️ docs.google.com/document/d/1... #JustTransitionRising #BAM @canclimateaction.bsky.social

CRI Researcher @kristashennum.bsky.social spoke to @saskiakonniger.bsky.social and @nrc.nl about our latest research on the impacts of nickel mining in #Indonesia ⤵️ #COP30 #Mensenrechten #NickelMining www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

📢🌏Indonesië ontgint op grote schaal nikkel voor de productie van elektrische auto’s. De gevolgen ter plekke zijn desastreus. Meer weten? @nrc.nl sprak @kristashennum.bsky.social, onderzoeker van @climaterights.bsky.social, over nieuw baanbrekend rapport. Een must-read! #COP30 #Mensenrechten

CRI Legal Director @llakhdhir.bsky.social reflects on our work at the intersection of #ClimateChange and #HumanRights, and how the world is increasingly recognizing that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis. Read on CRI's Substack! ⤵️ climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/the-law-is...

Deforestation isn’t just a climate issue—it’s a human rights one. Illegal clearing in the Amazon often uses forced labor and invades Indigenous land -- check out our latest video --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBO...

Great video by @climaterights.bsky.social about the massive, highly negative human rights and environmental impacts of nickel mining in the #Philippines, which contributes little in climate change pollution but whose people bear the brunt of rapacious nickel mining. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf6H...

Ahead of #COP30 CRI Senior Policy Advisor @danielwilkinson.bsky.social spoke with #Brazil’s @oglobo.globo.com about deforestation in the #Amazon, Brazil’s mixed #climate record, and the critical role of civil society in driving change. Read English translation here: lnkd.in/guYMKX32 lnkd.in/gPGnVNUE

I'll be at #COP30 this week, focusing on advancing a meaningful just transition. If you're in Belem, please join me at @climaterights.bsky.social @nrginstitute.bsky.social and Transforma's side event on November 11.

Fossil-fuel and mining giants are turning to secretive investor-state systems to push back on environmental and climate protections. #Greenland’s recent ruling highlights the role national courts can play instead. Read here! cri.org/greenland-ar...

In the #Philippines nickel mining has expanded rapidly to supply materials for e-vehicles and other forms of renewable energy. While nickel is essential for the transition to renewables, for some communities living near these mines the expansion has come at a high cost: youtu.be/Hf6HiZiO9aQ

Proud of this short video I produced about one of Brazil's most important tools for tackling climate change: Traditional and local forest-dependent communities. Important watching ahead of COP30 to understand the challenges they still face in doing what they do best: conserving the forest. #COP30

We signed the Healthy Planet Now open letter along with 200+ organizations, experts, and activists worldwide. It's important that we make health a focus point when talking about climate action. Read the letter here: bit.ly/4osi30U #HealthyPlanet

Save the Date for our event at #COP30: "Just Transition or Just Extraction?" exploring priorities for ensuring that globalized #mineral supply chains advance just energy transitions, starting with frontline communities in the #GlobalSouth. 📅 Nov 11 '25 📍 Blue Zone (COP30, Belém) 🕟 4.45 - 6.45pm

To read the full report, see: cri.org/reports/brok... To watch the film, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf6H...

The urgency of the climate crisis cannot be used as an excuse for the endless extraction of minerals like nickel and the serious impacts to frontline communities and ecosystems.

We @climaterights.bsky.social document: 🚫 increased vulnerability to the climate crisis because of mining 🚫 destruction of fishing and farming livelihoods 🚫 increased food insecurity 🚫 water pollution 🚫 health problems 🚫 attacks, killings, criminalization, and intimidation for those who speak out.

As one of the countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis, people across the Philippines understand the urgency of climate action. Yet some communities are not only suffering direct impacts from climate change but are also experiencing serious consequences from the rush for transition minerals.

❗NEW REPORT❗ "Broken Promises": Philippines Nickel Mining Causes Rights Abuses and Increases Climate Vulnerability highlights the toll of nickel mining in the Caraga Region in Northern Mindanao, home to more mines than any other part of the country.

📢 NEW CRI REPORT: “Broken Promises: #Philippines Nickel Mining Causes Rights Abuses and Increases Climate Vulnerability” documents deforestation, water pollution, loss of livelihoods, and attacks on defenders in the country’s #nickel industry. Read the report here: cri.org/reports/brok...

Nova investigação da CRI já disponível: “Motosserras, fumaça e silêncio: como a negligência do Brasil com os modelos de conservação comunitária alimenta o desmatamento e a violência na Amazônia”. Leitura obrigatória antes da #COP30 no Pará. cri.org/desmatamento...

5/5 As deforestation pushes the Amazon toward a tipping point, Brazil’s challenge ahead of COP30 is clear: it must protect not just the forest, but those who safeguard it. Please read and share! #Amazon #ClimateAction #Deforestation #HumanRights #SocioBioeconomy #CommunityConservation #COP30

4/5 These territories could anchor a thriving sustainable economy — one that secures livelihoods and Brazil’s climate future. But instead, defenders are being threatened, attacked, and killed for protecting the forest.

3/5 Yet many of these areas are now under attack, as neglect, impunity, and weak land rights leave residents exposed to illegal loggers, ranchers, and land grabbers. 📖 Our new report shows how this unravelling threatens both people and forests cri.org/brazil-defor...

2/5 Those models — extractive reserves and environmentally differentiated settlements — were designed so communities could make a living by keeping the forest standing. Together they cover around 10 million hectares across Pará — the same state that will host COP30 next year.

🧵 1/5 Chico Mendes, Dorothy Stang, and the da Silva's are some of the best known environmental activists killed for defending the Amazon. But they weren’t just protecting trees — they were defending land-use models that tied community livelihoods to forest protection.

New CRI investigation out now: “Chainsaws, Smoke, and Silence: How #Brazil’s Neglect of Community Conservation Models Fuels Deforestation and Violence in the #Amazon.” A must-read ahead of #COP30 in Pará: cri.org/reports/chai... #Deforestation #HumanRights #ClimateAction #Pará #COP30

Thanks to @nytimes.com for covering the urgent + growing risks of extreme heat for workers – and for highlighting my latest @climaterights.bsky.social report on heat + labor rights in Bangladesh. Encouraging to see these issues gaining visibility in mainstream media. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/c...

Featuring stories from our latest research on the harmful impacts of nickel mining in #Indonesia: Dian, who lives close to a coal power plant run by a mining company, often experiences shortness of breath and constantly finds ash from the coal power plant accumulated around her house (1/2)

Our research rests on the stories shared by the communities most affected. In our latest report on #NickelMining in #Indonesia residents of Southeast Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, & North Maluku share the harmful impacts of mineral extraction taking place around their homes ➡️ cri.org/reports/does...

⚕️ Lack of access to health and environmental information; 🫰 Land grabbing and a lack of or inadequate compensation for land; ⛑️ Dangerous working conditions at mining and smelting facilities; 🗿 Threats to Indigenous ways of life; and 🤐 Fear of retaliation for speaking out. cri.org/reports/does...

CRI interviewed 93 people living near and working at nickel mining and processing operations in Southeast Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, and North Maluku. They found: 💦 Severe air and water pollution; ❤️‍🩹 Health problems related to mining; 🎣 Destruction of fishing and farming livelihoods;