#COP30: Deeply disappointing answer from #UNFCCCC's head Simon Stiell on the letter from 220+ civil society & Indigenous organizations calling him to reverse the consequences of the letter that has led the climate talks to become a militarized zone. READ: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨200+ orgs call on #UNFCCC to reverse the harmful directive that escalated security at #COP30. ✊We stand in solidarity with #IndigenousPeoples & Env. Human Rights Defenders. We call on the #UNFCCC to de-escalate & protect the right to peaceful protest at #COP30 and beyond. 👉Read: shorturl.at/2vGaj

#IndigenousPeoples came to #COP30 to defend their land, future & our planet. They were met with lines of security forces. This is the result of a UNFCCC letter. We joined 170+ orgs in calling on the UNFCCC to de-escalate, listen & protect the right to peaceful protest. A mini 🧵

As week 2️⃣ at the UN climate talks #COP30 in Belém 🇧🇷 begins, here's a recap of what happened during the 1st week & what to look for over the remaining days. A 🧵 on what went down 👇

#COP30 does business as usual on land that belongs to #IndigenousPeoples, while the #UNFCCC excludes their voices & denies their right to participate. This week’s actions by Munduruku Indigenous Peoples from Brazil were powerful reactions to deep-rooted rights violations ignored for far too long. 🧵

Brazil's President Lula has said #COP30 is the COP of truth — "so it must be the truth when it comes to recognizing the titling of Indigenous territories as a climate mitigation measure.” Secure land rights are crucial for the survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Learn more ⤵️

‼️ACTION at #COP30✊ Defending the Defenders: NO #ClimateJustice WITHOUT #Defenders & #HumanRights. Join the HR&CC WG to honour those silenced by restrictive laws, smear campaigns, arbitrary detention, and physical & online attacks. 🗓️ TODAY |⏰ 12:30-13:00 (Belém) |📍Action Area 1

#COP30 is taking place in Brazil, home to more than 300 Indigenous Peoples safeguarding the Amazon. Once again, the #UNFCCC sidelines #IndigenousPeoples, denying them effective participation in the very spaces where their future is negotiated. 👉 Read: apnews.com/article/unit... 🧵👇

Today at the #Portugal Pavilion 🇵🇹 at #COP30: powerful panel on protecting Environmental Human Rights Defenders. #EHRDs. Happening during Gender Action Day is a reminder that climate action only works when the people, particularly women, defending our planet can do so safely.

In the heart of the Amazon, for #COP30 🇧🇷🌎 The next two weeks, I’ll be in Belém advocating with @ciel.org and allies in the Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group for #HumanRights-based climate action, grounded in #law, #justice & #accountability. 🧵

Arrived in Belém for #COP30, the first one after the historic climate ruling by the International Court of Justice ⚖️ @ciel.org will be on the ground advocating for climate action based on legal obligations and calling for a deep reform of the UN climate regime to make it more effective & inclusive.

🚨Breaking🚨 🕴️Just a few days ahead of #COP30, today, the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition uncovered that there are more than 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the climate talks over the past four years. It's high time to #KickBigPollutersOut: www.theguardian.com/environment/... A 🧵

🌍 There is no #climatejustice in a climate of fear. ✊Environmental defenders are risking their lives to protect our planet, while governments fuel the climate crisis. #COP30 must deliver #justice: protect defenders & bring their realities into the decisions that will be made in Belém. Read more👇

⚖️ The Inter-American Court of Human Rights made history with its Advisory Opinion on climate. How do we use it? 👉 bit.ly/AOzoom 📅 Join us 10/29 @ 9 AM Mexico City / 10 AM Bogotá / 11 AM ET / 12 PM Santiago. 🗣️ More than a webinar. Come workshop with us! 💬 Spanish/English interpretation.

#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.

🎬 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

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. 🧵

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐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

🚨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 👇👇

⚠️ 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

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 ⬇️

🧵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

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

🚨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!

🌍 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

@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"

🚨 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.

“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.

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

📆 ⚖️ 🌱 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

📣 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

"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...

▶️ 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 🔽

🗣️ 📑 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;

🆕 @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...

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

🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE 🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent. 🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room. 🧵 🔽 thread below

🔥⚖️🌐NOW: historic moment for #ClimateJustice ongoing in #SaulvsRWE in Hamm 🇩🇪 📢this case could set a groundbreaking #ClimateLitigation legal precedent to hold polluters accountable for climate harms 🐦📝I will be reporting live on this platform, with facts & background 👇

🎉 #KlimaSeniorinnen BIG WIN 🎉 The @coe.int decided that Switzerland is not yet complying with the requirements of the @echr.coe.int's climate judgment. 🇨🇭must fulfill its legal obligation to protect its citizens’ human rights by ramping up its climate ambition. Our reaction 👇

‼️ Webinar alert ‼️ Together with @wy4cj.bsky.social & PISFCC, we are organizing a panel discussion to reflect on the arguments presented by countries during the historic hearings at the International Court of Justice on States' responsibility to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 👇 More info 👇

📢 Exciting News! CIEL is thrilled to welcome Rebecca Brown as our new President & CEO! A seasoned human rights lawyer and advocate, she will lead us in using the power of law to protect people & the planet. 🌍⚖️ Read more: bit.ly/4imHNbp

As @coe.int's members meet for the second time in the Committee of Ministers’ Rapporteur Group on Human Rights, we call on States to turn words into action and legally recognize the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! ➡️ healthyenvironmenteurope.com/the-case-for...

📣We are hiring! We are looking for a communication specialist to support our campaigns on: 🌪️ climate change & human rights, ✊ fighting false climate solutions—geoengineering, #CCS, and petrochemicals. 📆 May 2025, 6 months leave coverage 📍Geneva APPLY NOW: cielorg.bamboohr.com/careers/108?...

CIEL welcomes the UN Human Rights Council's Advisory Committee’s ongoing work on the impact of #Disinformation on human rights. READ how disinformation plays a role in exacerbating environmental degradation, chemicals & plastic pollution, and climate change: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u...

Countries must reject Trump’s unlawful plan to “take over” #Gaza. Forcible displacement of Palestinians violates international law and amounts to crimes against humanity. No leader is above the law. We must resist early signs of imperial darkness.

🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)

In the historic International Court of Justice climate proceedings, human rights arguments have been at the forefront. 🤓READ @srenvironment.bsky.social's timely article on the role of the UN’s highest court in ensuring the right #HealthyEnvironmentForAll everywhere 👇👇 sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...

Updates from my work as UN Special Rapporteur on #ClimateChange & #HumanRights can now be found here. Check the Amicus brief I submitted with Astrid Puentes Riaño to the European Court of Human Rights on 📌 intersectionality in climate change mitigation & adaptation www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

📢 Join us to “Get to Know the Right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the Council of Europe Campaign: Updates, Insights, and Engagement” - we will discuss options ahead and ways to strengthen our collective voice. 📅 January 30 ⏰ 1pm CET 📝 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ALL States must act to limit their emissions in order to tackle the climate crisis. Switzerland is no exception. 🆕 joint submission shows 🇨🇭 failure to comply with the European Court of Human Rights' climate judgment: www.klimaseniorinnen.ch/wp-content/u... Switzerland must #ActOnClimateNow. A🧵