Sébastien Duyck
Senior Attorney; Campaign Manager Human Rights & Climate, Climate & Energy Program
Sébastien Duyck (he/him) is a senior attorney for CIEL’s Climate & Energy Program, and is the campaign manager for the human rights & climate change portfolio. He is based in Geneva. His work focuses primarily on promoting the integration of human rights and public participation in climate governance and in strengthening accountability for climate harms.
Sébastien manages, coordinates, and serves as the organizational focal point for CIEL’s cross-program portfolio of work that aims to protect human rights from the drivers of and response to the climate crisis through international governance. He leads CIEL’s engagement with UN human rights institutions seeking greater consideration and scrutiny by these bodies of the duties of States to prevent human rights harms caused by climate change or climate responses and to promote environmental democracy.
Prior to joining CIEL, Sébastien worked as a consultant on related issues for a range of organizations including Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Carbon Market Watch, the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Programme (CCAFS) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Sébastien completed the LLM in Public International Law of the University of Helsinki and the LLM in Natural Resources Law and International Environmental Law from the University of Iceland. He is a visiting researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland). His main fields of research relate to international climate governance, human rights and the environment, and Arctic governance.
When not working on rights-based climate policies, Sébastien can be found hiking across the Alps with his two sons.
Sébastien can be reached at sduyck@ciel.org.
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