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News from our Climate Change Program

April 2013	Civil Society and Entrepreneurs Call on World Bank to Clean Up Energy Lending
December 2012	At Doha Climate Talks: Failed ambition and unfulfilled promises
November 2012	Doha 2012: Act NOW, the climate won't wait
November 2012	Statement by CIEL President Carroll Muffett on the World Bank's Turn Down the Heat Report
June 2012	The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is seeking a Staff Attorney for its Climate Change Program
May 2012	International Finance Corporation to be audited for its involvement in privatizing Kosovo's electricity grid
May 2012	At the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, CIEL's Niranjali Amerasinghe discusses how a lack of ambition may prevent nations from fulfilling even the most modest of their climate mitigation pledges even as emissions increase worldwide.
December 2011	At Climate Talks: Nations agree to do tomorrow what they should have done yesterday.
November 2011	This is a critical moment in the development of the international climate regime as Parties negotiate to decide the fate of climate action beyond 2012 in Durban, South Africa.
October 2011	Joint submission by CIEL, Earthjustice and Greenpeace USA on the national interest determination for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project.
July 2011	Controversial coal projects continue to be registered despite serious concerns.
July 2011	UN panel calls for immediate suspension of coal power projects in the CDM.
March 21, 2011	CIEL report critiques World Bank energy policy: Analysis Shows Bank Failed to Fully Consider Environmental and Health Costs in Controversial South African Project
February 2011	The right to development is necessary to effectively address climate change.
February 2011	CIEL joins others in calling for an open and participatory process to design the Green Climate Fund under the UNFCCC.
December 2010	Cancun resurrects multilateral process, says CIEL; UN climate negotiations catalyze new process forward for climate agreement.
December 2010	CIEL presents 2010 Inaugural Recipient of the Frederick R. Anderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Addressing Climate Change: Alliance of Small Island States
July 2010	CIEL publishes Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
May 2010	CIEL publishes Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
May 2010	CIEL organizes a side-event on human rights, climate change and technology transfer.
January 2010	CIEL discusses climate change and the right to development at the sixth session of the High-Level Task Force on the Implementation on the Right to Development.
December 2009	CIEL organizes side event at COP-15 on: New Approaches to Compliance.
November 2009	Proposed Ex-Im Bank carbon policy undermines US Administration's commitment to phase-out fossil fuels. Read more in civil society letter from CIEL and others.
October 2009	CIEL will address the conflicts and compatibilities between the trade and climate change regimes at the American Society of International Law.
September 2009	CIEL and Friends of the Earth invite the public to Climate Change Policies & WTO Trade Rules: Conflict or Coherence? September 29, 2009, with release of Is World Trade Law a Barrier to Saving Our Climate?.
June 2009	In a dialogue with member states, CIEL urges the Human Rights Council to take action to ensure that climate change does not harm human rights. CIEL statement available here.
May 2009	CIEL presents Issue Brief on Climate Change and Human Rights in Bonn, Germany.
May 2009	CIEL organizes Technology and Finance Workshops at D92 NGO Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and provides discussion papers on Technology Cooperation, Trade and Climate Change, and Legal Architecture.
May 2009	Climate Action Network urges the UNFCCC to include an effective technology transfer mechanism in the Copenhagen climate deal.
March 2009	The Friedrich Erbert Foundation and the Center for International Environmental Law cordially invite you to to a panel discussion and launch of the new publication Practical Approaches to Integrating Human Rights and Climate Change Law and Policy
February 2009	CIEL pushes for effective Technology Transfer at the Climate Change negotiations in Poznan, Poland: Report of the CIEL Panel discussion with civil society and clean technology business.
December 2008	CIEL addresses the Human Rights and Climate Change Interface in a Conference at WCL celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
November 2008	CIEL participates in OHCHR consultation on Human Rights and Climate Change.
October 2008	CIEL provides support for Maldives submission to UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights.
March 2008	CIEL co-hosts Climate Change Event at American University's Washington College of Law on March 20, 2008
	CIEL identifies key issues that need to be resolved in the coming negotiations to implement the Bali Plan of Action roadmap for a future international agreement on climate change.
September 2007	CIEL announces Climate Change Program Partnership with Philip Blumberg, Chairman of Blumberg Capital Partners
May 2007	CIEL releases in-depth legal analysis of the Global Environment Facility’s new, controversial Resource Allocation Framework, which currently applies to the GEF climate and biological diversity focal areas.
March 2007	Global warming and human rights gets hearing on the world stage.
December 2005	Inuit File Petition with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Claiming Global Warming Caused by United States Is Destroying Their Culture and Livelihoods.
October 2005	The Legal Dimensions of Climate Change: A conference by and for the legal profession. Follow-up actvities to be announced soon.
July 2005	Despite US foot-dragging, G8 leaders send a strong signal on global warming.
February 2005	As the Kyoto Protocol enters into force, the United States must substantially reduce its emissions to prevent an Arctic meltdown and an end to the Inuit way of life.
December 2004	Inuit Leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier announces Intention to File a Human Right Claim Against the U.S. for Its Dangerous Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
November 2004	CIEL President Daniel Magraw challenges the Washington Post's claim that the Kyoto Protocol is a "Symbolic Treaty".
October 2004	CIEL participates in the 11th Annual International Law Career Forum hosted by the Washington College of Law's International Law Society.
September 2004	CIEL's President Daniel Magraw comments on Russia's decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
September 2004	Head of Inuit group testifies about the Melting of the Arctic -- and the threat this represents -- at the McCain climate change hearing.
August 2004	New study shows parts of Greenland Ice Sheet thinning at rate of 10 meters per year.
July 2004	Eight states file Global Warming Lawsuit against utilities, bolstering claim by Inuit that US greenhouse gas emissions violate their human rights.
April 2004	CIEL Attorney Publishes Article Suggesting Legal Tools to Limit CO2 Emissions from New Coal-Fired Power Plants.
December 2003	Inuit Circumpolar Conference plans human rights action against US for damage to the Arctic caused by global warming.
December 2003	CIEL proposed an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol's Cap and Trade System for developing countries at the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention, 1-12 December 2003 in Milan, Italy.
October, 2003	U.S. Senate fails to pass the Climate Stewardship Act on October 30th, 2003.
September 2003	CIEL Responds to EPA's denial of its own authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
November 2002	Global Warming, Energy and the World Summit on Sustainable Development .
February 2002	CIEL Condemns Bush's Greenhouse Gas Plan as Inadequate to Fight Global Warming Threat.
November 2001	Hard Work by Environmentalists Makes Climate Negotations in Marrakech, Morocco a success.
October 2001	CIEL attends Seventh Conference of the Parties in Marrakech, Morocco, October 29 -November 10.
September 2001	CIEL prepares Legal Memorandum: Mandate of COP to Adopt Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms.
July 2001	Bonn Agreement: A Milestone for Climate Protection.
July 2001	CIEL's Summary of the Compliance Mechanism at the Bonn Climate Change Conference.
June 2001	Europe: A Committment to Kyoto (Op-Ed article in the Washington Post)
June 2001	Developing Country Commitments? Ask George Bush (Senior).
May 2001	Bush Energy Plan Violates International Law.
May 2001	Congressman Menendez Achieves Global Warming Victory in the House of Representatives.
April 2001	Urge Bush to Keep His Campaign Promise and Stop Global Warming! Find out what you can do at the Natural Resource Defense Council, Greenpeace - U.S.A., Friends of the Earth - Europe and CorpWatch .
March, 2001	Attorney Glenn Wiser discusses the disconnect between the IPCC reports concerning the impacts of global warming on future generations, and proposed budget surplus fixes.
March 2001	Urge Bush to Keep His Campaign Promise and Stop Global Warming! Find out what you can do at the Natural Resource Defense Couclass="internal" ncil and Greenpeace - U.S.A..
March 2001	In “Kyoto, Costs,and Compliance: A Public Interest Lawyer’s View of COP6,” CIEL attorney Glenn Wiser reports on his efforts with the Climate Action Network to prevent a “price cap” rule from being adopted for the Kyoto Protocol by the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) at The Hague.
June 2001	View the Quito Declaration from the 4 - 6 May, 2000 workshop in Ecuador regarding "Climate Change Convention and the Clean Development Mechanism (also available in Spanish).
March 2000	Submission by US Climate Action Network in Response to the Note by the Chairman on the Contract Group on Mechanisms

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