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New Report Warns of Escalating Marine Geoengineering Experiments, Urges Upholding Precaution

LONDON / WASHINGTON, DC, October 16, 2025 — A new report published today charts potential locations for high-risk marine... Read More

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Plastics Treaty Chair Stepping Down Alone Won’t Fix the Process

GENEVA, October 7, 2025 — Following The Guardian story that announced that Ambassador Luis Vayas Valdivieso, chair of the... Read More

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UN General Assembly Opens with Ever Greater Urgency to Uphold the International Rule of Law

NEW YORK, September 22, 2025— As world leaders gather in New York for the High-Level segment of the UN... Read More

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Movement Lawyering Matters

Published October 14, 2025 By Cynthia Houniuhi, President, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), and Assistant Law Lecturer, The...

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From Frack to Fork: How Fossil Fuels Poison our Food Systems

Published October 2, 2025 By Taylor Hodge, US Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuels Campaigner, Lisa Tostado, Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuel...

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The Risks of Geoengineering on Biodiversity

Published September 24, 2025 By Alana M. Carlson, Marine Geoengineering Campaigner at the Center for International Environmental Law This...

Publications

A Gathering Storm: How Marine Geoengineering Threatens All Ocean Basins (October 2025)

Marine geoengineering — large-scale technological intervention in ocean systems intended to alter the global climate — is increasingly entering... Read More

Publications

Too Toxic to Ignore: Confronting the Petrochemical Threat in Europe (October 2025)

Petrochemicals—fossil fuel–derived substances used in plastics, fertilizers, and synthetic materials—are a major, yet overlooked, driver of Europe’s environmental, health,... Read More

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The International Investment Legal Regime, Climate Change, and Human Rights: An Overview (October 2025)

Embedded in thousands of international investment agreements, the little-known investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system allows foreign companies to sue... Read More

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