Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Baku Climate Conference COP29 (December 2024) Climate Justice Proceedings at the ICJ: Top Arguments to Watch For in the Written Submissions (December 2024) Remedy and Reparations for Climate Harm: The Human Rights Case (November 2024) Ensuring a Human Rights-Based Approach to the International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment International Investment Law and ISDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Effective Climate Action under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement Preparatory Materials for the Fifth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5) The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Climate Justice Proceedings at the ICJ: Top Arguments to Watch For in the Written Submissions (December 2024) Remedy and Reparations for Climate Harm: The Human Rights Case (November 2024) Ensuring a Human Rights-Based Approach to the International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment International Investment Law and ISDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Effective Climate Action under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement Preparatory Materials for the Fifth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5) The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Remedy and Reparations for Climate Harm: The Human Rights Case (November 2024) Ensuring a Human Rights-Based Approach to the International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment International Investment Law and ISDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Effective Climate Action under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement Preparatory Materials for the Fifth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5) The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Ensuring a Human Rights-Based Approach to the International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment International Investment Law and ISDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Effective Climate Action under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement Preparatory Materials for the Fifth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5) The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
International Investment Law and ISDS: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Effective Climate Action under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement Preparatory Materials for the Fifth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5) The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Preparatory Materials for the Fifth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5) The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
The Risks of Geoengineering: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises (October 2024) Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Exiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Scope and Limits of Decisions by the Conference of the Parties: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Structure and Elements of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Final Provisions of International Legal Instruments: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024) Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Declaración de Manaos: Un Llamado a la Justicia Climática Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Manaus Declaration: A Call for Climate Justice States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (August 2024) Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Negotiation Timelines of International Legal Instruments (July 2024) Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Legal Memorandum Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Relevance for the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Proceedings (July 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution (June 2024) Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (June 2024) Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Loss And Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint (April 2024) Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Plastic Polymers under the Full Life Cycle Approach: Key Considerations on the Scope of the Future Plastics Treaty Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Legal Models to Control Primary Plastic Polymer Production: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Preparatory Materials for the Fourth Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-4) Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Dubai Climate Conference (COP28) (February 2024) Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action (Jan 2024) Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Beyond Abatement: Securing a Full Phase Out of Fossil Fuels at COP28 (November 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (November 2023) Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Direct Air Capture: Big Oil’s Latest Smokescreen (November 2023) Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Opening the Rosewood Pandora’s Box (November 2023) Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Implementation, Compliance, and Reporting: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Reducing Plastic Production to Achieve Climate Goals: Key Considerations for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (September 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-3 (November 2023) National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
National Implementation Plans and National Action Plans: Key Elements to Consider in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Calculated Risk: Australia’s Exposure to Illegal Logging (July 2023) Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (June 2023) Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Chilean Communities’ Responses and Recommendations to Accountability Mechanisms of Development Banks Regarding the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project (June 2023) Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Deep Trouble: The Risks of Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (June 2023) Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Promoting Human Rights in Climate Action: Report from the Sharm el-Sheikh climate conference COP27 (May 2023) Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Preparatory Materials for the Plastics Treaty INC-2 (May 2023) Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Compilation of Key Terms Relevant for the Negotiation of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (May 2023) WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
WTO Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Carbon Capture and Storage: Frequently Asked Questions (April 2023) Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (April 2023) Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air (March 2023) Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Harnessing Public Finance Potential to Create Renewable Energy Economies (March 2023) Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Beyond Recycling: Reckoning with Plastics in a Circular Economy (March 2023) Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Lost in Translation: Lessons from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment on the Urgent Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Risks of Misplaced Reliance on False Solutions (March 2023) Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners (November 2022) Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk (October 2022) Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Winter Is Coming: Plastic Has To Go: A Case for Decreasing Plastic Production to Reduce the European Union’s Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Russia (September 2022) The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
The Export of Banned Pesticides to Africa and Central America: Legal Opinion (September 2022) How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
How Can the European Union Legislation Tackle Microplastics Pollution (July, 2022) Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline – Backgrounder on Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk (June 2022) 10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach (June 2022) Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (May 2022) Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Roadmap and Initial Reflections on CHR’s Final Report in the Philippines National Inquiry on Climate Change (May 2022) Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Plastics Treaty Negotiations Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion (May 2022) Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Tackling the trade in illegal timber: a comparative study of legal frameworks (May, 2022) IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Joint submission to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment Agreements and Climate Change States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: Guidance Provided by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (March 2022) Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Remedying Harm: Lessons from International Law for Development Finance (March 2022) Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Beyond the Limits: New IPCC WG II Report Highlights How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Past a Point of No Return (Feb 2022) Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Briefing Note Series: Climate Governance and Human Rights Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments (Jan 2022) Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Legal Acquisition Findings: A Handbook (Jan 2022) The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
The Future of Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (Dec 2021) Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Good Policy Paper: Guiding Practice from the Policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (January 2024 & December 2021) The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
The Transatlantic Petrochemical Trade is Undermining Europe’s Climate and Plastics Policies (Dec 2021) Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Working for Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Tutorials (Nov 2021) Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Recommendations for the Implementation of OVE’s Evaluation of MICI from Civil Society Organizations (Nov 2021) Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Permian Climate Bomb (Oct 2021) Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Plastic is Carbon: Unwrapping the ‘Net Zero’ Myth (Oct 2021) Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Bodies Established Under UN Climate Agreements: Fact Sheet Series (Oct 2021) Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Formosa Plastics Group: A Serial Offender of Environmental and Human Rights (A Case Study) (Oct 2021) Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net-Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges (Aug 2021) Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Meaningful Public Participation in a COVID-19 World (Jul 2021) Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (Jul 2021) Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge in the Context of the UNFCCC (Jun 2021) Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Toxic Assets: Making Polluters Pay When Wells Run Dry and the Bill Comes Due (Apr 2021) Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Funding Our Future: Five Pillars for Advancing Rights-Based Climate Finance (Mar 2021) Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (Feb 2021) Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Legal Analysis of the Consequences of the OECD Non-Consensus Determination on the Basel Plastic Amendment (February 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change? Regional Perspectives (January 2021) The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How Can the European Union Set an Example for the World? (January 2021) Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Climate Change and Human Rights: The Contributions of National Human Rights Institutions (December 2020) Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Legality of EU Proposals on Ship Recycling (September 2020) Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Financing the Sound Management of Chemicals Beyond 2020: Options for a Coordinated Tax (September 2020) Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Additional Warnings Against Investing in Oil & Gas: Debt-Driven Dividends & Asset Fire Sales (July 2020) Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a New Global Agreement to Address Plastic Pollution (June 2020) Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries (April 2020) States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update (March 2020) Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Leveraging the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies for Climate Campaigning: Resources for Activists and Campaigners Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019) About Us Issues Research & Publications Get Involved Press Room CIEL in the News Privacy Policy
Oil, Gas and Climate: An Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Plans for Expansion and Compatibility with Global Emission Limits The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019)
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Dec 2019)
