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Newsletter 28 Apr 2025

Environment: What’s Up in GENeva | 28 April – 4 May 2025

The Geneva Environment Network’s weekly newsletter includes the latest information on the global environmental agenda, main events, job vacancies, as well as other useful resources and updates. Stay tuned and follow us on X (Twitter), Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky, and Youtube, or visit our website regularly for additional updates.

Image of the week | Robert Bilott, an environmental lawyer from the United States, recipient of the international Right Livelihood Award, speaking at the screening of How to Poison A Planet, that took place on the eve of the opening of the 2025 Meetings of the Conference of the Parties of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. The Executive Secretary of the Conventions, Rolph Payet, underscored at this event how chemicals, even if displaced to far away locations, come back through air, water and food, and that the documentary serves to set the scene of the negotiations as it reminds us the ultimate goal is doing good for the planet and people. © UNEP/GEN, 27 April 2025

2025 Meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

The 2025 meetings of the Conference of Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions kick off this week in Geneva, under the theme “Make visible the invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes”. More than 2,000 delegates are registered to attend the two-week-long meetings, which will include a high-level segment on 30 April and 1 May 2025, and a fair from 29 April to 2 May 2025. Many of the 54 side events can be followed online. → Follow the live coverage from the Earth Negotiation Bulletin and other useful information in our update on the meetings

The Geneva Environment Network will take part in the 2025 Meetings of the BRS COPs with a booth featuring multilateral Geneva making visible the invisible crisis of chemical, waste and pollution and organizing, co-organizing and supporting various side events. The team is also supporting the secretariat on specific activities. This week, join the team at:

In preparation of the meetings various stakeholders have issued briefing notes, including:

Consensus on Pandemic Agreement Makes History

After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States have reached a significant milestone in global efforts to enhance pandemic safety by forging a draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly, taking place in May in Geneva. The proposal aims to strengthen global collaboration on prevention, preparedness and response to future pandemic threats, committing to a “One Health” approach to pandemic prevention. → Read more:

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Observed every 28 April since 2003, the World Day for Safety and Health at Work stresses the importance of preventing accidents and diseases at work, capitalizing on the ILO’s traditional strengths of tripartism and social dialogue. The 2025 edition of the celebration will shed light on how new technologies are transforming Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), including through the automation of tasks, use of smart OSH tools and monitoring systems, extended reality and virtual reality and algorithmic management of work. As highlighted in the recently released report Revolutionizing health and safety: The role of AI and digitalization at work, digitalization and automation are transforming millions of jobs worldwide, creating powerful opportunities to enhance occupational safety and health. Automation and smart monitoring systems can reduce exposure to hazardous environments, enhance workplace safety by identifying hazards, monitoring environmental conditions and predicting equipment failures. For instance, robots can perform tasks that present inherent environmental health risks to human such as collecting toxic waste, spraying pesticides, working in contaminated and dusty environments or in high-temperature environments. However, the report highlights that workers responsible for maintaining or repairing these machines may be exposed to new safety, health and chemical risks making proactive and adaptive policy responses. → Read more in ILO Press Release.

To mark the day, ILO will host a live event bringing together ILO constituents and international experts to explore how AI and digitalization are reshaping OSH systems across sectors and countries. → Join the discussion on ILO Live on 28 April 2025 from 13:30 to 15:00 CEST.

Establishing a Plastics Treaty | Road to Geneva

With the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2) scheduled to take place from 5 to 14 August 2025 in Geneva, plastics continue to remain high on the environmental agenda this week.

Events organized this week as part or in the margins of the BRS COPs include:

  • Informal Breakfast with Ministers on the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution during the Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions | 1 May 2025 | 08:00 – 09:30 CEST | Geneva Room, Varambé Centre | UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen will host ministers for a high-level informal event aiming to provide an opportunity for Ministers and High-Level representatives to engage in informal yet focused dialogue, share insights and explore pathways to advance the ongoing discussions.
  • From hidden threats to visible actions: Addressing POPs and Nano/Microplastic Waste | 30 April 2025 | CICG, Room 2 | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST | Organized by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), MedWaves and UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production, this side event will how to address nano-, microplastics and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and how these affect the recovery of plastics and their integration into circular economy practices.
  • Plastic Pollution and Transparency in Trade Flows in the Context Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the Protection of the Environment and Health | 2 May 2025 | CICG, Exhibition Area | 13:15 – 14:45 CEST | Co-organized by the co-coordinators of the Dialogue on Plastic Pollution, Barbados and Ecuador, and the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), this side-event aims at bringing attention to the importance of furthering transparency efforts to address plastic pollution, shedding light on the work of the WTO Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade (DPP).
  • Preventing Plastic and E-Waste Trafficking: Lessons from the Frontlines | 4 May 2025 | CICG, Room 2 & online | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST | Organized by the Basel Action Network, in collaboration with the Environmental Investigation Agency, Break Free From Plastic, and the Geneva Environment Network.
  • Empowering Education and Effective Capacity Building to Tackle Plastic Pollution | 4 May 2025 | CICG, Exhibition Area | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST | Organized by IUCN, BCCC-Uruguay, AEEFG, and GRID-Arendal.

Other events taking place this week include:

  • The Governments of Mexico and Switzerland together with TESS are organizing a panel event, “Addressing chemicals of concern in plastics: Pathways to protection of the environment and human health in the plastics treaty“, which will take place on 29 April 2025 in the Domaine de La Pastorale and online from 13:30 to 14:30 CEST. → Register for in person or online participation.
  • The Minderoo Foundation is organizing a reception and thought-provoking discussion on the urgent need to regulate chemical use in plastic to protect human and planetary health, at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue on Wednesday 30 April at 18.30 CEST.
  • Events on invitation, organized by WWF, CIEL, or the government of Switzerland, have also been announced.

Coming up later this spring:

  • The Geneva Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues will resume with a session Health on the Negotiating Table: Stakeholder Reflections on the Plastics Treaty Draft, where leading experts joining the panel of this event will provide feedback on the chair’s text and highlight which important improvements could be made at INC-5.2 to ensure the treaty will safeguard human health. → Join on Webex on 15 May 2025 from 15:00 CEST.
  • World Environment Day 2025 will focus on putting an end to global plastic pollution. To gather momentum ahead of INC-5.2, the Geneva Environment Network will organize at the International Environment House II on the morning of 5 June 2025 the annual celebration around various key moments:
    • World Environment Day Breakfast, offered by the host country;
    • GENeva World Environment Day Forum, which will showcase how international Geneva is advancing the Beat Plastic Pollution agenda; and
    • The World Environment Day High-Level Dialogue, which will build momentum towards the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. (10:30 to 12:00 CEST).

Other news include:

Championing for the Earth

Various initiatives and prizes awarding those at the frontlines of protecting our planet and championing for the Earth have recently announced new awardees or updates. These include:

Pope Francis’ Environment Legacy | Everything is Connected

Following the passing of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, 21 April, aged 88, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recalled that “Pope Francis understood that protecting our common home is, at heart, a deeply moral mission and responsibility that belongs to every person,” noting that his second Encyclical – Laudato Si – was a major contribution to the global mobilisation that resulted in the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change. In Laudato Si’, which he released prior to the UN Climate Conference in Paris (COP21), the Pope called indeed for all people, not just Catholics, to pay more attention to the frailty of both our planet and its people. As the Pope has put it, in an understated phrase that sums up the entire spirit of the document: “Everything is connected.” An article published in 2019 in the journal Biological Conservation, found that Laudato si’ led to a worldwide increase in interest in environmental issues – especially prominent in, but not restricted to, Catholic countries. A follow-up exhortation, Laudate Deum, was released in October 2023, ahead of the UN Climate Conference in Dubai (COP28). Building on the 2015 encyclical, he said we’re not reacting enough and close to breaking point. He criticised climate change deniers, saying that the human origin of global warming is now beyond doubt. And described how care for our common home flows from the Christian faith.

Laudato si’ had a significant impact on Catholic environmental activism. It gave rise to the Laudato Si’ movement, which coordinates environmental activism across the globe. It has 900 Catholic organisations as well as 10,000 of what are known as Laudato Si’ “animators”, who are all ambassadors and leaders in their respective communities. The Laudato Si’ Research Institute at Campion Hall, Oxford, was also launched in 2019, seeking to provide intellectual foundations for a reordering of society toward care for the earth and care for the poor. Other catholic organisations — including Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church’s charitable arm — expanded their work on environmental questions.

Other statements include UN climate chief Simon Stiell who said “Pope Francis has been a towering figure of human dignity, and an unflinching global champion of climate action as a vital means to deliver it,” adding that Pope Francis “had a deep working knowledge of complex climate issues, and his leadership brought together those most powerful forces of faith and science to deliver unimpeachable truths, highlighting the costs of the climate crisis for billions of people.” Read more at:

Calls for Submissions and Contests | Upcoming Deadlines

With the environment high on the agenda of International Geneva and beyond, different international processes, negotiations, and fora regularly call for inputs in preparation for future reports and guidelines, as well as contests. → Find here calls for submissions related to the environment, find here information on ongoing environmental contests, and here calls for submissions from Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and other human rights bodies and instruments.

  • Country Visit to Singapore | The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is taking feedback for a country visit to Singapore, to take place from 14 to 23 May 2025. The visit will include discussions with government officials and representatives of civil society about good practices and challenges in the implementation of human rights obligations relating to climate change and environmental protection. The deadline for submission is 29 April 2025.
  • Human Rights in the life cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals | In her upcoming report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, seeks to synthesise and analyse a varied body of evidence (from across the natural and social sciences, including Indigenous science and other knowledge systems) of the positive and negative human rights impacts of different sources, scales and stages to renewable energy development, throughout their full life cycle, including the extraction and re-use of critical minerals. On that basis, the report will seek to clarify States’ international human rights obligations, as well as business responsibility, to support a just transition while enhancing the protection of everyone’s human right to a healthy environment and the prevention of foreseeable negative human rights impacts of certain climate mitigation approaches. The deadline for submission is 30 April 2025.
  • Guidance on Indigenous Peoples’ engagement in ASGM national action plans | Decision MC-5/7, the Conference of the Parties, requested the Minamata Convention Secretariat, subject to the availability of resources, to prepare a supplemental section of the NAP Guidance. During the intersessional period and thanks to generous financial support of Australia and Norway, the Secretariat prepared an initial draft of the supplemental guidance based on available literature and expertise. As explained in the letter from the Executive Secretary, this supplemental guidance is intended to support the effective engagement and participation of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of national action plans (NAPs) to reduce and, where feasible, eliminate mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). Inputs can be submitted by using this comment form and email it to the Secretariat (mea-minamatasecretariat@un.org) by 30 April 2025.
  • Basel Convention Plastic Waste Partnership Pilot Projects | The third call for proposals for pilot projects under the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Partnership is open for submissions until 30 April 2025.
  • Nominations for the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2025 | Know of an initiative to involve everybody in the green transition? Remember to nominate it for the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2025. The Nordic Council Environment Prize 2025 will go to an initiative that involves everybody in the green transition. The Environment Prize focuses on a new theme each year. In 2025, it is the contribution civil society is making to green transition. The deadline is 30 April 2025.
  • UNEP 2025 Champions of the Earth award | The 2025 award spotlights outstanding climate action focusing on solutions on methane, buildings and construction, sustainable cooling including energy efficiency, clean air, and forests. The Champions of the Earth award honours individuals and organizations whose actions have a transformative impact on the environment. In 2024, UNEP honoured individuals and organizations working on innovative and sustainable solutions to restore land, enhance drought resilience, and combat desertification. Nominate a Champion of the Earth by 30 April 2025.
  • Call for Submissions: Youth-Led Innovation in Early Warning Systems | The World Meteorological Organization, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, the International Telecommunication Union and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), is calling on young innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs to showcase their work to advance early warning systems (EWS). The call is part of a thematic session on science, technology, and innovation that will be hosted at the Global Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Early Warnings for All in Geneva on 2 – 3 June 2025. The proposed youth-led solutions should harness the power of innovation, traditional knowledge, and frontier technologies to enhance early warning systems and disaster resilience. Selected entries will be showcased at the Forum, offering young people a global platform to share their contributions. The deadline for applications is 1 May 2025.

Enjoying a Green Spring in Geneva

While school holidays are still ongoing in Geneva this week, to enjoy a blooming spring our list of suggestions this week include:

  • Bike to work | 1 May – 30 June 2025 | GenevaJoin the Bike to work campaign and contribute effectively to sustainable mobility! Every year in May and June, over 100,000 commuters ride to work by bike on as many work days as possible and can even win prizes. If you are working for the United Nations, join the dedicated team!
  • La vie sous terre | 3 May 2025 | Bois de Jussy
    Let’s discover the many inhabitants of the soil! What are they? What do they do? How can we observe them? Join this tour in the woods to understand these small soil inhabitants better so that we can protect them more effectively.
  • Deep Time Walk | In Celebration of Earth Day | 4 May 2025 | Centre Nature du Vallon de l’Allondon
    Step into Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history on a 4.6 km guided walk through time, where each metre represents one million years. This immersive experience blends science, storytelling, and reflection to explore the evolution of life, major planetary milestones, and our place in Earth’s unfolding story.
  • Dialogues insolites entre le Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève et le Conservatoire botanique de Genève | Until 29 June 2025 | Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques
    Discover the fascinating interactions between the plant and animal worlds through a unique exhibition showcasing historical specimens and scientific connections. Learn how creatures like the sphinx moth, tattooed armadillo, and Darwin’s orchid have contributed to scientific advancements, and explore the legacy of renowned Geneva naturalists.
  • Art et évolution | Until 31 May 2025 | Conservatory and Botanical Garden
    Showcasing artistic interpretations of evolutionary concepts by school groups, the exhibition features their creative works alongside reflections on their learning process. Explore this unique blend of science and art in the passage under Route de Lausanne.

Happening Abroad

  • 2025 UN Forum Permanent on Indigenous Issues | The 2025 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, kicked off last week at the UN Headquarters in New York, under the theme “Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within United Nations Member States and the United Nations system, including identifying good practices and addressing challenges”, and will conclude on 2 May 2025.
  • Nature Finance Forum Europe 2025 and Sustainable Investment Forum Europe | Co-hosted by UNEP FI and Climate Action, the Nature Finance Forum and Sustainable Investment Forum Europe will take place respectively on 28 and 29 April 2025 in Paris, France. The inaugural Nature Finance Forum Europe, will be the first event in Climate Action’s Road to COP30 Nature and Finance Series. The 8th Annual Sustainable Investment Forum Europe will bring together over 400 senior leaders from institutional investors, regulators, and multilateral institutions to help shape the future of Europe’s economy for a just, net-zero, and nature-positive economy. The Forum aims to urge banks, insurers, and investors to prioritise the just transition as a core component of their net zero plans, ensuring fair trade practices are applied.
  • 10th Our Ocean Conference | The 10th Our Ocean Conference will be held in Busan, Korea from 28 to 30 April 2025. It will be held under the theme ‘Our Ocean, Our Action’ to promote global actions for a sustainable ocean. In particular, this 10th conference will discuss ‘Digital Oceans’ as a special agenda, focusing on means to drive action. Ocean Digital is a concept that combines the ocean industry and digital technology, serving as an implementation tool to achieve a sustainable ocean swiftly and systematically.

What (Else) to Read Next?

  • Fears Trump’s deep-sea mining order will irreparably harm ecosystems | The Guardian | 26 April 2025
    Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ongoing process to adopt international rules for the practice.
  • ‘Very, very toxic’: The risk of asbestos in Gaza’s rubble | BBC | 25 April 2025
    Experts on the ground there say people are unable to manage the risks posed by asbestos or dust inhalation due to the more immediate dangers of Israel’s military offensive. “The lack of awareness about the risks of asbestos, combined with the ongoing challenges [people in Gaza] face in trying to rebuild their lives, means they are unable to take the necessary measures to protect themselves,” a Gaza-based spokesperson for the NGO SOS Children’s Villages said.
  • Climate Mitigation Measures and Some Policy Interoperability Approaches | Scott Vaughan | TESS | 25 April 2025
    Despite the proliferation of climate mitigation policies and standards, interoperability has been a steadfast priority of the international climate regime since its inception. This briefing note provides some examples of climate policy interoperability in the areas of equivalency and converging international standards.
  • World leaders rally for ‘full-speed’ climate action ahead of COP30 | UN News | 23 April 2025
    At a high stakes virtual summit on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva brought together 17 national leaders from major economies and climate-vulnerable countries. The goal was to accelerate global climate ambition ahead of COP30, which will be hosted in Brazil.
  • Local leaders raise temperature on action to fight climate change | UN News | 22 April 2025
    From Morocco to Maharastra, California to Quebec, the UN’s Local Leaders series highlights how strong leadership is positively impacting on people’s lives in both developing and developed countries.
  • UK scientists to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments | The Guardian | 22 April 2025
    UK scientists are to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments as part of a £50m government-funded programme. The experiments will be small-scale and rigorously assessed, according to Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the UK government agency backing the plan, and will provide “critical” data needed to assess the potential of the technology. The programme, along with another £11m project, will make the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world.
  • How cleaner production bolsters economic resilience in developing countries | UNCTAD | 22 April 2025
    On International Mother Earth Day, 22 April, the United Nations is renewing calls for a shift to a more sustainable economy that works better for both people and the planet. Echoing that call, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) underscores that pollution is more than an environmental concern. It’s also an economic issue, reflecting waste inefficiency, high costs and an increasing barrier to trade competitiveness.
  • FfD4 Countdown: How Public Procurement Can Help Drive Sustainable Development | IISD | 17 April 2025
    As discussions on financing for development intensify ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), an important policy tool often gets overlooked: public procurement. While countries focus on how they can secure more resources for development, they often fail to consider how existing funds could be spent more sustainably.
  • New Global Assessment Reveals Hope for Marine Turtles, Highlights Urgent Need for Continued Action | IUCN | 17 April 2025
    Published in Endangered Species Research,Updated global conservation status and priorities for Marine Turtles, the multi-year study evaluated 48 sea turtle populations across six species globally, and convened nearly 150 MTSG experts from 50 countries to assess risks, threats, and conservation capacity. Remarkably, results show that threats have declined for the majority of sea turtle populations.
  • The Benefits of Bats: Celebrating the critical contributions of bats on International Bat Appreciation Day | IUCN | 16 April 2025
    Bats contribute immensely to the health and wellness of planet Earth: they eat insect pests that destroy crops, saving farmers money and lowering the need for pesticides. They disperse seeds, helping to regenerate forests, and other habitats, and they pollinate flowers (including agave which provides mezcal and tequila), which contributes to keeping our food supply healthy and plentiful.
  • Infrastructure écologique: investir pour renforcer la nature et la biodiversité | Republique et Canton Genève | 16 April 2025
    Le Conseil d’Etat a adopté à l’intention du Grand Conseil un projet de loi d’investissement pour l’infrastructure écologique qui prévoit de mettre à disposition des collectivités publiques et des acteurs privés un budget de 50 millions de francs sur la période 2025 – 2029 pour consolider les apports de la nature et de la biodiversité. Pour cibler les actions prioritaires dans ce domaine, le plan biodiversité 2025-2030 (PB2) a également été adopté.
  • European State of the Climate: extreme events in warmest year on record | WMO | 15 April 2025
    Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change here are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe, with record temperatures in central, eastern and southeastern regions. Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least 335 lives and affecting an estimated 413,000 people. During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, and warm but wet conditions in the west. 
  • Why Now is the Best Time to Reform Fossil Fuel Subsidies | IISD | 15 April 2025
    Experience has shown that fossil fuel consumer subsidy reforms are most successful when introduced during periods of low prices—yet too often, these moments are missed. With global oil prices currently low, governments have a unique window to reform fossil fuel subsidies with minimal disruption to consumers and businesses.
  • Non-target and suspect screening of articles, chemical products and recycled materials | Nordic Council of Ministers | 14 April 2025
    This report provides a review of studies that have been performed to date using non-target screening (NTS) and suspect screening (SS) to identify substances in articles, chemical products, and recycled materials. Comprehensive data on the occurrence and hazard properties of chemicals in different products and articles represent a cornerstone of a sound chemicals management system.
  • Deep-sea mining risks leads study to urge shift to circular solutions | University of British Columbia | 14 April 2025
    Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching implications for coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), it is also likely to negatively affect the business community, including insurers and investors, says a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy.
  • Entretien exclusif avec Paul Watson : “L’écologie consiste à protéger l’humanité de sa propre folie” | Science et Avenir | 14 April 2025
    Après la suspension de la Notice rouge d’Interpol émise à son encontre, Paul Watson retrouve sa liberté de mouvement. A 75 ans, il poursuit sans relâche son combat pour les océans. Dans une interview exclusive, il alerte sur les menaces qui pèsent sur la biodiversité marine et l’urgence d’agir. Il revient notamment sur l’exploitation des grands fonds, le sort des deux orques de Marineland, ou encore la géo-ingénierie.
  • Critical minerals were once for renewables. Now they’re for war | Global Witness | 14 April 2025
    The defence industry is not the main source of US demand for rare earths but it is key in arguments about their criticality. Many of the 17 elements play indispensable roles in radar, targeting and missile propulsion systems. The military implications of Trump’s rare earth fixation are greater given that he doesn’t seem to actually mean rare earths.
  • ⁠Consensus on ivory trade at the forthcoming CITES CoP20 summit unlikely due to competing interests | EIA | 14 April 2025
    Elephants and ivory trade are expected to take centre stage at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES . A significant divide already exists between African countries on these issues. The West and Central African countries, home to the majority of African forest elephant populations, are largely opposed to trade and have previously advocated for all African elephant populations to be uplisted to CITES Appendix I to receive increased protection against trade, including Burkina Faso’s unsuccessful uplisting proposal at CoP19 in 2022.
  • Grounding the New Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations on the Right to a Healthy Environment | Francesca Mingrone and Ana Maria Suarez-Franco | April 2025
    The main existing frameworks to regulate corporate conduct – at the international, regional, and national levels – currently fail to incorporate the protection of the environment meaningfully. This article explains how including the right to a healthy environment and broader environmental considerations in the new legally binding instrument on transnational corporations is essential to ensure the effective protection of people’s rights and the planet.
  • Alto Maipo: A Fight for Justice, A Legacy of Harm (April 2025) | CIEL | April 2025
    Once touted as a model for sustainable energy, the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project became one of Chile’s most controversial infrastructure developments and a cautionary tale of environmental destruction, human rights violations, and massive financial fallout. While Alto Maipo has left lasting scars for the affected communities, it also catalyzed key policy changes aimed at preventing similar injustices in the future. 

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