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Rachel Kennerley

International Carbon Capture Campaigner

Rachel Kennerley (she/her) is the International Carbon Capture Campaigner in CIEL’s Fossil Economy program, based in the UK. Her work focuses primarily on opposing the reliance on, deployment of, and public investment in ineffective and expensive Carbon Capture & Storage and Direct Air Capture technologies.

Rachel has over a decade of experience in exposing and resisting the fossil fuel industry and its impacts – through grassroots organizing against the fracking industry; challenging carbon-major’s greenwashing, and championing demands for globally-just climate solutions.

Before joining CIEL, Rachel worked as the International Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland where she worked on campaigns and legal challenges to successfully end UK export credit financing for fossil fuel projects; tracking and communicating policy to global movements at the international climate talks; and advocating at the forefront of climate justice issues such as climate induced migration, climate finance and renewables guardrails.

Outside of her formal role she’s also worked on creative campaigns to successfully end the sponsorship of several UK cultural institutions by fossil fuel companies.

Rachel has an undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Environment, Politics and Globalization from King’s College, London.

Rachel can be reached at rkennerley@ciel.org.

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