If states back the resolution by consensus, it would send a powerful message of commitment to climate action and the rule of law, despite pushback by some big emitters Joie Chowdhury is a senior attorney and climate justice and accountability manager at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Jule Schnakenberg is the director … Read More.
Reforming the talks is not procedural housekeeping – it is a crucial pillar of climate action needed to accelerate a fossil fuel phase-out and ramp up finance Published November 11, 2025 By Rebecca Brown, CIEL President and CEO, and Lien Vandamme, CIEL Senior Campaigner at the Climate and Energy Program. This piece was originally published … Read More.
When Will US Policymakers Face the Reality of Climate Change? Published July 14, 2025 By Conor MacDonald, Financial Strategies Attorney, Charles Slidders, Manager and Senior Attorney, and Lindsey Jurca, Senior Communications Campaign Specialist, at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) More than 120 deaths have been reported, and at least 161 people remain missing … Read More.
Published June 5, 2025 By Joie Chowdhury, Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, Aditi Shetye, Global Strategic Litigation Lead at the World’s Youth for Climate Justice and Researcher in Public International & Environmental Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; and Theresa Amor-Juergenssen, Legal Research and Capacity-Building Lead at … Read More.
Published March 26, 2025 By Joie Chowdhury, Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, and Vishal Prasad, Director of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change In December 2024, the world’s highest court became the stage for what may be the “biggest case in human history.” Over two weeks, 96 States from … Read More.
Published November 26, 2024 By Hélionor De Anzizu, Senior Attorney for the Environmental Health Program at the Center for International Environmental Law. This is part one of a two-part analysis that unpacks the EU and UK’s shift away from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), focusing on the Treaty’s misalignment with climate goals and the ongoing … Read More.
Published November 24 2024 By Joie Chowdhury, Senior Attorney of Climate Litigation and Accountability for CIEL’s Climate & Energy Program, and Rossella Recupero, CIEL’s Communications Campaign Specialist. The International Court of Justice is expected to issue its opinion by late 2025. From December 2nd to 13th, the International Court of Justice will hold two weeks … Read More.
The country will likely have to pay over $30 million to an American litigation firm because it wanted to protect its environment from harmful seabed mining. Published October 21, 2024 By Jen Moore, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, Ellen Moore, Making Clean Energy Clean campaign manager at Earthworks, and Carla García Zendejas, … Read More.
Published August 5, 2024 By Patrick Boyle, Corporate Accountability Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, and Charles Slidders, Senior Attorney, Financial Strategies at the Center for International Environmental Law. The US Supreme Court recently issued decisions in four cases that could profoundly weaken the administrative state, foreshadowing widespread dysfunction for federal agencies and the … Read More.
Published June 27, 2024 By Upasana Khatri, Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, and Joie Chowdhury, Senior Attorney, Climate Litigation and Accountability at the Center for International Environmental Law. On May 21, 2024, the court for the world’s oceans became the first international court to declare that States have a legal duty to … Read More.
Today, there are three climate advisory proceedings underway before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), each of which has been asked to clarify States’ climate obligations.