Headquartered in Washington since 1990, CIEL opened an office in Geneva in 1995 to focus on the World Trade Organization, where international trade rules are negotiated, monitored, and enforced. CIEL's presence in Geneva and Washington, D.C. permits a coordinated effort to shape trade policy at the WTO, in the WTO's most powerful national member -- the United States -- and in the two most powerful trading blocks -- the NAFTA and the European Union.  CIEL also helps its NGO partners worldwide by providing them with otherwise inaccessible information from Geneva, and by helping them understand and participate in shaping their governments' positions on trade and environment issues of national and global significance.

CIEL's intern/extern program in Geneva offers law students and exceptionally motivated undergraduates excellent opportunities to gain experience in the field of international environmental law. For more information, please click here.