CIEL Climate Change Program

Climate Change Program

For more information about CIEL's Climate Change Program, contact Niranjali Amerasinghe.

CIEL relies on the spirit of charitable giving from supporters and friends like you. Together we can make a critical difference.

Climate Change Resources

Climate Change Impact Case Studies

in the Arctic
around the world

Climate Change Issues

Implementing a rights-based approach to REDD (June 2009)
Ensuring integrity of safeguards for the FCPF: letter to the facility management team (June 2010)
Considerations for a UNFCCC complaint mechanism (video presentation here) (Nov 2009)
Safeguards and REDD (May 2010)

For help with terminology, please review these glossaries for Climate Change and Forests.

Non-governmental Organizations

Government Departments

Inter-governmental Organizations

Climate Change Texts

Learn More!

To receive CIEL's monthy newletter, click here.

Fred Anderson “For many people on the planet, unlike the vast majority of Americans, there is an intimate linkage between the environment on which indigenous populations depend and their survival.

For them, their lifestyle, their customs, whether religious or subsistence agriculture, those things are really quite linked. CIEL recognized this, made the connection, and took it forward—integrating human rights law with environmental law. This is one of the great achievements of the organization.”

- Fred Anderson, Former Chair, CIEL Board of Trustees, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Washington, D.C.