Plastics are a pollutant of unique concern, as they do not break down quickly and accumulate in the environment as more is produced. They carry toxic impacts throughout their...
December 6, 2017 NAIROBI. Efforts to address global plastic pollution took a significant step forward today as world governments agreed to establish a specialist group tasked with examining options...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 5, 2017 Washington, DC — A new report released today by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) examines the plastics industry’s knowledge of the...
Massive Petrochemical Investments Could Lock In Flood of New Plastics for Decades FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2017 Washington, DC – The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) today...
On a sleepless night scrolling through my Facebook posts, one mesmerizing image caught my attention. It said: [“It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the...
Published February 2, 2024 By Sébastien Duyck, Senior Attorney & Human Rights & Climate Campaign Manager, and Lani Furbank, Communications Campaign Specialist. On the 75th anniversary of the Universal...
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...
December 15, 2023 NAIROBI — The second session of the Ad hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-2) on the Science-Policy Panel — to contribute further to the sound management of...
Published November 29, 2023 The United Nations climate conference gets underway in the United Arab Emirates this week against a backdrop of broken records and broken promises. From off-the-charts...
November 22, 2023 Dubai, UAE – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts will be available for comment during the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention...
September 23, 2023 BONN, GERMANY – Experts from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) are available for comment on the future of global chemicals policy and how policymakers...
Lindsey Jurca Durland Communications Campaigns Specialist Lindsey Jurca Durland (she/her) is a Communications Campaign Specialist with CIEL’s Fossil Economy Program. Based out of California, her work focuses on exposing...
August 9, 2023 WASHINGTON, DC — The leaders of State Parties to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day summit, with...
Dharmesh Shah Consulting Senior Campaigner (Plastics Treaty) Dharmesh Shah is the Consulting Senior Campaigner with CIEL’s Environmental Health Program and is based out of India. His work focuses primarily...
June 28th, 2023 Geneva (CH) — In an unprecedented step, States at the Annual Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention — an agreement on access to information...
June 1, 2023 BONN, GE, – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts are in Bonn, Germany, engaging in international climate negotiations during the 58th session of the Subsidiary...
Daniela Duran Gonzalez Senior Legal Campaigner (Upstream Plastics Treaty) Daniela Duran (she/her) is a Senior Legal Campaigner focused on the upstream parts of the plastics treaty for CIEL’s Environmental...
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Experts Track the UN Triple Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions May 1st, 2023 GENEVA (CH) – CIEL...
Lisa Tostado Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuels Campaigner Lisa Tostado (she/her) is the Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuel Campaigner in CIEL’s Fossil Economy Program, based in Paris. Her work focuses primarily...
March 3, 2022 NAIROBI (KE) — The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) welcomed the incremental steps taken by States and stakeholders to establish a new framework to promote global...
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is purported to collect or “capture” carbon dioxide generated by high-emitting activities, and is therefore commonly proposed as a technology to help meet global...
Delphine Levi Alvares Global Petrochemicals Campaign Manager Delphine Lévi Alvarès (she/her) is the Global Petrochemicals Campaign Manager in CIEL’s Fossil Economy program, based in Brussels (Belgium). Her work focuses...
February 3, 2022 BANGKOK (TH) —The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) welcomed steps taken by States gathered in Thailand to advance the establishment of a new Science-Policy Panel...
October 31st, 2022 SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EG / WASHINGTON, DC – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts will be in Sharm El-Sheikh and available for comment during the 27th...
October 6, 2022 Washington, DC — Chemical fertilizers derived from fossil fuels (“fossil fertilizers”) are an underrecognized driver of climate change, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution, and yet the...
Fertilizers and pesticides are interdependent inputs to a destructive food production model that is contributing to catastrophic biodiversity collapse, toxic pollution, and the violation of human rights. But there...
A BRS Cha-Cha: UN Chemicals Negotiations Make Some Key Advances, Delay Already Overdue Protections, and Offer Lessons for Future Plastics Treaty FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 17, 2022 Geneva, Switzerland...
Center for International Environmental Law Experts Will Be Attending the United Nations Triple Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions in Geneva GENEVA, CH, June...
GENEVA, CH, June 1st, 2022, — The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) welcomes Lili Fuhr as Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Program. Lili brings more than...
The plastics and petrochemicals industry has big plans to expand its footprint around the world. If this expansion moves forward, the industry will blow through our global carbon budget, exacerbate...
Starting next week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will host the 5th Meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives to UNEP (OECPR) and the second session of...
NAIROBI, KEN / WASHINGTON, DC – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts will be in Nairobi and available for comment during the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR)...
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,...
Dustin White Senior Campaigner: Plastics & Petrochemicals Dustin (he/him) is a Senior Campaigner on Plastics and Petrochemicals based in the so-called “Chemical Valley” of Appalachia. Before joining CIEL’s Fossil...
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...
December 8th, 2021 BRUSSELS — In a bid to become a global leader on reducing methane emissions, the European Commission plans to table its proposal for a Methane Regulation...
The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is the all-encompassing global framework for supporting the realization of sound management of chemicals and waste throughout their lifecycle. Its core...
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,...
Rachel Radvany Environmental Health Campaigner Rachel (she/her) is an Environmental Health Campaigner for CIEL, working to protect communities and the environment from the toxic impacts of plastics and other...
November 1, 2021 Glasgow — As global climate talks get underway in Scotland, 725 groups from nearly 100 countries are calling on governments and leading international institutions to end...
October 26, 2021 GLASGOW, UK / WASHINGTON, DC – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts will be in Glasgow and available for comment during the 26th Conference of...
A new multi-media report shows, for the first time, the Permian Basin’s huge global climate impact and environmental justice threat to communities from New Mexico to the Gulf Coast....
The climate emergency is here, and we know fossil fuels are the cause. During the People vs. Fossil Fuels week of action in Washington, DC, many of CIEL’s US-based...
The right to science plays an essential role in both public communications regarding toxics and the science-policy interface September 21, 2021 Geneva, CH — Following the release of the...
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,...
What is carbon capture and storage? Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) are processes designed to collect or “capture” carbon dioxide generated by...
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...
Hélionor De Anzizu Staff Attorney, Environmental Health Program Helionor de Anzizu is an Attorney qualified in Paris, working at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). At CIEL, Helionor...
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,...
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Today, human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council released a statement raising “serious concerns” about further industrialization of Cancer Alley in...
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,...
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,...
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...
There is no longer doubt about the intersection of the environment and human rights. As illustrated throughout the pandemic, all environmental threats, from climate change to toxic exposure, are...
The global pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on waste management systems worldwide, posing grave risks to human health and the environment. It will be necessary to develop ambitious waste...
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,...
The year 2020 was supposed to be the “super year for nature.” Many people around the world were expecting new, ambitious goals to protect our oceans and biodiversity and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2020 Washington, DC—Amidst the ongoing pandemic crisis, the oil majors are racking up debt and selling off assets, in moves that aim to project...
Oil, gas, and petrochemical companies are selling off assets at massively discounted prices, slashing dividend payouts for shareholders, and racking up debt to preserve a facade of stability. Even...
We are in the throes of a cultural reckoning. While that conversation has often felt specific to the United States — and many parts of it are — this...
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...
This morning, CIEL joined over 160 organizations from around the world in the Finance Climate Challenge. The full text of the challenge is included below. To learn more about...
“If we can stop the flow of money, we can stop the flow of oil.” In January, a coalition of environmental, youth, and Indigenous groups, including the Center for...
Andrés Del Castillo Senior Attorney Andrés (he/him) is the Senior Attorney for CIEL’s Environmental Health Program supporting the growing campaign to address the impacts of plastic production, use, and...
The following is a statement from David Azoulay, the Director of Environmental Health at the Center for International Environmental Law. “Last night’s styrene gas leak in Visakhapatnam exposed thousands...
May 1, 2020 – Today, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) welcomes Nikki Reisch as Director of its Climate and Energy Program. Nikki brings more than fifteen years...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2020 New York, NY—Environmentalists are blasting attempts by oil and gas companies to hijack the Fed’s Main Street Lending Program in order to pay...
Cate Bonacini Senior Communications Campaign Specialist Cate Bonacini (she/her) is the Senior Communications Campaign Specialist at the Center for International Environmental Law. She is based out of the Washington,...
Yvette Arellano Yvette (they/them) is a Gulf Coast organizer from Houston, Texas, dedicated to the causes of environmental and racial justice. They serve as a policy research and grassroots...
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...
There is a very good chance that California taxpayers will be on the hook for $500 million in future costs of plugging so-called “orphan” oil and gas wells, and...
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...
The world has changed profoundly in the last thirty years. Time and again, CIEL has helped to shape that change — from helping to link human rights and the...
December 12, 2019 The European Commission’s “European Green Deal” includes a Roadmap of policy initiatives on everything from reducing emissions, to implementing a circular economy, to protecting health and...
December 3, 2019 Increasing Plastic Production Pollutes Communities, Fuels Global Warming WASHINGTON, DC ― More than 350 community and conservation organizations filed a legal petition today that demands the...
MEDIA ADVISORY November 29 – December 14, 2019 MADRID, SPAIN – CIEL experts will be in Madrid and available for comment during the 25th Conference of the Parties to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2019 Saudi Arabia has announced that the long-heralded partial IPO of its national oil company, Saudi Aramco, will be drastically scaled back. The banks...
Jane Patton Campaign Manager, US Fossil Economy Jane Patton (she/her) is the US Fossil Economy Campaign Manager, and her work supports the Fossil Economy program in confronting the harmful...
CIEL Vacancy Announcement: Staff Attorney – Climate & Energy and Environmental Health Programs August 2019 The Center for International Environmental Law is seeking a passionate lawyer and experienced advocate as...
For Immediate Release March 17, 2019 Reflecting on the outcomes of the 4th Meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya (UNEA-4), the Women’s Major Group offered...
A sample, not comprehensive, list of media coverage tracking CIEL in the news in recent months. Read recent releases and statements. Los Angeles Times. Editorial: Plastic trash is not...
Again and again, our work makes clear to us that the world is filled with people ready to stand up. The world is filled with leaders. They are mobilized....
July 11, 2018 The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) welcomes the publication of three long-awaited UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reports on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The three reports...
You may not know about endocrine disruptors, but chances are they’re in your body. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) interfere with the body’s hormonal system and are linked to developmental, reproductive,...
Sales receipts, food containers, beverage cans, and plastic water bottles: you have probably used one of these objects in the last few days. What do they have in common?...
Single-use plastics — such as plastic packaging, light-weight plastic bags, disposable cups, and food containers — make up an estimated half of the plastics found on EU beaches. To...
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...
From November 27 to December 6 in Nairobi, Kenya, the CIEL team will participate in the third meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-3). UNEA, the main governing...
October 31, 2017 Yesterday, the Department of Justice and ExxonMobil announced that the two parties reached a settlement for ExxonMobil’s continuous and longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emissions...
For Immediate Release September 21, 2017 Organizations in the Gulf and across the country released a joint statement today expressing solidarity with the thousands of Texans affected by Hurricane...
On Earth Day – April 22, 2017 – in Washington, DC (and in satellite marches in 600+ cities across the globe) thousands of people will come together in a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2017 Brussels, Belgium — A single, unified system to identify hormone-harming chemicals is the best way to keep endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) out of our...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 1, 2017 ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson is unqualified and unfit to serve as the United States’ Secretary of State. In voting today to confirm his...
Recipe for hormone system disruption: Step one – manipulate science and bake regulations for 2.5 years In a recent article in Le Monde, almost a hundred scientists denounced industry’s manipulation...
Flemish Member of the European Parliament recommends rejecting the EU-Canada trade and investment deal on health and environmental grounds After the Walloon hero Paul Magnette nearly stopped the...
Giulia Carlini Manager & Senior Attorney, Environmental Health Program Giulia Carlini (she/her) is a manager and senior attorney in CIEL’s Environmental Health program, protecting communities and the environment from...
Steven Feit Senior Attorney & Legal and Research Manager Steven Feit is the Senior Attorney & Legal and Research Manager in CIEL’s Fossil Economy program, based out of the...
