CIEL Expert Availability During COP29 Climate Talks in Baku, Azerbaijan

BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 30, 2024 — Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts will be available for comment during the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP29, November 11 – 22 in Baku.

CIEL experts will monitor and engage in negotiations, particularly at the intersection of climate justice, human rights, and the role of the fossil fuel industry.

Key areas of CIEL’s advocacy and monitoring include:

  • Advocating for the urgent scaling up of public climate finance to meet the needs and priorities of climate-vulnerable communities and developing countries;
  • Calling for an urgent, equitable, and comprehensive phaseout of all fossil fuels;
  • Advancing reparations and accountability for climate harm;
  • Exposing dangerous distractions, including carbon markets, offsets, carbon capture, hydrogen, and geoengineering, along with their associated human rights risks;
  • Monitoring the protection of civic space, including the rights to freedom of expression and assembly.

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CIEL Experts in Baku

Erika Lennon — CIEL Senior Attorney specializing in climate finance, dangerous distractions including carbon markets and offsets (Article 6), human rights-based social and environmental safeguards, redress mechanisms, and fossil fuel phaseout. In Baku November 8 – 22. Follow Erika on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Lien Vandamme — CIEL Senior Campaigner specializing in the intersection between human rights and climate change with a focus on the UN climate regime and Nationally Determined Contributions, as well as remedy and reparations for climate harms, following negotiations on loss and damage.
In Baku November 8 – 22. Follow Lien on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Nikki Reisch — CIEL Director of Climate & Energy, focusing on the role of fossil fuels in the climate crisis, climate litigation and accountability, climate Advisory Opinions from international courts and tribunals, ISDS/Energy Charter Treaty, the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and false climate solutions including carbon capture and storage (CCS). In Baku week 2 (November 17 – 22). Follow Nikki on Twitter.

Rachel Kennerley — CIEL International Carbon Capture Campaigner specializing in false solutions to the climate crisis, including hydrogen and carbon capture and Storage (CCS).
In Baku week 1 (November 10 – 17). Follow Rachel on Twitter or LinkedIn.

CIEL Expert in Geneva:

Sébastien Duyck — CIEL Campaign Manager for Human Rights and Climate Change and Senior Attorney specializing in the intersection between human rights and climate change, including promoting the right to a healthy environment, civic space, and public participation. Follow Sébastien on Twitter, LinkedIn or Bluesky.

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Media contacts in Baku

To schedule an interview, please contact:

In Baku week 1 (Nov 10 – 17): Rossella Recupero, Communications Campaign Specialist + 41 76 216 5976 (Signal), +39 340 47 39 827 (WhatsApp), press@ciel.org

In Baku week 2 (Nov 17 – 22): Maria Frausto, Communications Director + 1 202 569-8107 (Signal and WhatsApp), press@ciel.org

Media contact in Geneva

Niccolò Sarno, Media Relations Specialist + 41 22 506 80 37 (Signal and WhatsApp), press@ciel.org