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Reshaping Accountability at the Banks

Learn how advocacy efforts are pushing development banks to provide remedy when their financing causes harms to the environment and communities.
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Making Our Ocean Fossil-Free

Learn about the risks of offshore oil and gas and how the law can help hold industry actors accountable.
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Tracking Historic ICJ Climate Hearings

Explore updates and insights as the world’s highest court tackles climate obligations.
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Geoengineering: Climate’s Risky Bet

Geoengineering technologies seek to cool the Earth, overlooking climate change’s root causes, and introducing new risks
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Press

Expertos de la ONU denuncian amenazas y estigmatización contra personas defensoras del agua y del páramo de Santurbán; exigen protección a su labor

Bucaramanga, Colombia, 20 de mayo de 2025 —El pasado 6 de marzo, las Relatorías Especiales de la ONU sobre defensores de derechos humanos,... Read More

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UN experts denounce threats and stigmatization against defenders of water and the Santurbán páramo; demand protection for their work

Bucaramanga, Colombia, May 20, 2025 — On March 6, 2025 the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on human rights defenders,... Read More

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Dangerous US Legislation Would Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Projects and Strip Public Protections

Dangerous US Legislation Would Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Projects and Strip Public Protections WASHINGTON, May 14, 2025—Today, US House Republicans... Read More

Blog

IFC’s Remedial Action Framework: A Historic Step for Those Seeking Remedy from Harm

Published May 15, 2025 By Carla García Zendejas, Director of CIEL’s People, Land, and Resources Program. In a historic...

Representatives from the Global Coalition at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Blog

Grounding the New Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations on the Right to a Healthy Environment

Published April 16, 2025 By CIEL Senior Attorney Francesca Mingrone and FIAN International Secretary General Ana Maria Suarez-Franco. This article...

Blog

The False Promise of Blue Ammonia for Shipping and Beyond

Published on April 8, 2025 By Taylor Hodge, US Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuels Campaigner, and Lindsey Jurca Durland, Senior Communications...

Publications

Alto Maipo: A Fight for Justice, A Legacy of Harm (April 2025)

Once touted as a model for sustainable energy, the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project became one of Chile’s most controversial... Read More

Publications

Fracking for Plastics: Exposing the Supply Chain Behind the Global Plastic Crisis

New research unveils the toxic supply chain fueling global plastic production, shedding new light on the critical players driving... Read More

Publications

Making Oceans Off-Limits to Offshore Oil and Gas (March 2025)

Fossil fuel companies are sinking ever more money into undersea reserves, taking their operations to ever deeper and more... Read More

Issue Areas

Beach Cleanup. Credit: Bo Eide

Plastic

international trade reform

Trade

toxics, endocrine-disrupting chemicals

Toxics

human rights and environmental protection

Human Rights

forests

Forests

development finance, accountability

Finance & Development

metals mining extractives

Extractives

corporations and human rights corporate accountability

Corporate Accountability

climate change

Climate

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