Paving the Way to a Toxic-Free Planet: The New Global Framework on Chemicals – for a Planet Free of Harm from Chemicals and Waste

Published January 31, 2024 By Giulia Carlini, Manager and Senior Attorney in CIEL’s Environmental Health program, David Azoulay, Director of the Environmental Health Program, and Catherine Allary, Communications Campaign Specialist. After years of negotiations, the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) successfully adopted a new global framework on September 30, 2023, in Bonn, Germany, … Read More.

The World Bank Needs a Remedy Framework to Deliver on Loss and Damage

Published December 18, 2023 By Aubrey Manahan, Campaigner for CIEL’s People, Land & Resources Program. This month, during the United Nations Climate Summit COP28 in Dubai, Parties finalized the creation of a Loss and Damage Fund aimed at addressing climate-related harms endured by vulnerable communities and countries. While this achievement follows decades of advocacy by … Read More.

TIAA Participants File a Complaint with Principles for Responsible Investing

On October 19, 2022, nearly 300 TIAA account holders filed a complaint against the financial services giant and its wholly-owned subsidiary Nuveen at the United Nations-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The complaint alleges that TIAA’s substantial investments in fossil fuels and deforestation violate the company’s climate pledges and commitment to the PRI Principles and … Read More.

The New Energy Charter Treaty in Light of the Climate Emergency

This piece was co-authored by the Center for International Environmental Law, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and ClientEarth. It was originally posted on Jus Mundi. After two years and fifteen negotiation rounds, on June 24, 2022, the Contracting Parties of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) finally reached an agreement in principle on a … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Melissa Blue Sky

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Jeffrey Wanha

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Taylor Black

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Highlights from 2021: Join Us in Celebrating Important Victories!

We are living in a moment of transformative change. Our world is in the midst of an accelerating climate crisis, an ongoing global pandemic, rising threats to democracy and human rights, and the growing recognition that we cannot address any of these challenges without confronting the legacy and ongoing impacts of systemic racism and oppression. … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Andrés Del Castillo

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Public Participation and COP26: A Report from Glasgow

Three days into COP26 and the promise of the “most inclusive COP ever” has shaped up to be nothing more than a farce with limited access and negotiations almost entirely off-limits to observers.  Alok Sharma opened the Climate Leadership Summit thanking everyone for their efforts to get to Glasgow, and it’s true: Delegates, civil society … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Ka’sha Bernard

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Carbon Capture and Storage: An Expensive and Dangerous Plan for Louisiana

Louisiana is gaining an ever-increasing amount of national and international attention for Cancer Alley, an eighty-five-mile stretch along the Mississippi River lined with industrial plants, and the corridor’s role in perpetuating environmental racism and threats to public health. Simultaneously, the state’s policymakers are turning toward a new pernicious industrialization effort that threatens to impact Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities: carbon … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Amanda Kistler

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Nathaniel Eisen

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Giulia Carlini

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Steven Feit

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Highlights from 2020: Join us in celebrating important victories!

This year has been marked by profound challenges, from the intensification of the climate crisis, to a global pandemic, to police violence that has spurred global movements for racial justice. It has placed into stark relief that the greatest challenges facing people and the planet are deeply interconnected. 2020 has also demonstrated the importance of … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Cate Bonacini

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Francesca Mingrone

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Karin Cicelski

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Sarah Dorman

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day … Read More.

Meet Our Staff: An Interview with Marie Mekosh

Here at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), we know our strength comes from the people who make up our movement — from our staff, to our partners, to our steadfast supporters. Our “Meet Our Staff” series will introduce you to some of our amazing staff members, who work behind the scenes every day to … Read More.

Our Commitments to You During the COVID-19 Crisis

With the world rapidly changing around us, we want to let you know what you can expect from CIEL in the weeks and months ahead. The outbreak and impact of COVID-19 is reminding us of just how interconnected we all are with each other and with our planet. During this period, CIEL is committed to … Read More.

European Green Deal — A New Hope for Safer Chemicals?

The European Green Deal has been presented as an ambitious plan to transport the European Union to a bright, sustainable future for chemicals management. But is it really? The European Green Deal, presented by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on December 11, 2019, is meant to be the “boarding pass” for the European … Read More.

Tackling the Plastic Crisis with the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act

As plastic continues to suffocate the planet, the first comprehensive legislative plan in the United States to combat plastic pollution, the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, was launched today at the US Capitol. The bill, introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), seeks to address the plastic pollution crisis by … Read More.

The US’ Environmental Obstructionism is Hurting the Planet — and Itself

For years, wealthy nations have flooded developing countries with toxic plastic waste under the guise of “recycling.” Now, the international community has almost unanimously agreed to finally tackle the plastic waste trade crisis, but the US is, naturally, attempting to circumvent the new standards.  The practice of shipping plastic to other countries has been the … Read More.

Remembering Bradnee Chambers

Bradnee Chambers (1966-2019) Nature and humanity lost a true friend with Bradnee Chambers’ passing on January 23, 2019. A Canadian, Bradnee began his United Nations career at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) working on investment and transparency and then at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies; but he found his … Read More.

We Are The Tide: 2017 in Review

The last year has demanded more from all of us — more resilience, more innovation, more courage, more solidarity. In 2017, your support helped us… Tackle Plastic Pollution at its Source Our newly launched Fueling Plastics initiative is highlighting the deep links between plastics and fossil fuels, the primary chemical feedstock in over 99% of … Read More.

Mauritius Convention Boosts Trade Transparency

How lucky was your St. Paddy’s day this year? Likely, it brought more good fortune than you think. In the modern world we live in, full of high-tech information sharing and copious globalized trade, one might assume transparency measures to be a given aspect of international exchange. The fact of the matter is that such … Read More.

CIEL Announces Carroll Muffett as New President and CEO

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a leading non-profit that uses international law and institutions to defend the right to a healthy planet, has selected Carroll Muffett as its new President and Chief Executive Officer