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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 6h

VICTORY! In April 2025, 11 Ugandan climate defenders entered the Kenya Commercial Bank headquarters to peacefully deliver a letter urging the bank to end its financial support for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. After 17 months of delays, the case was just dismissed! 👏

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 7h

This week, we launched our #COP31 Legal Protection Center to support the safety of climate activists attending and traveling home during the annual UN climate conference in Türkiye (Nov 9-20). 👉 Visit: www.climatelegaldefense.org/cop31-en ☑️ RSVP for webinars: www.climatelegaldefense.org/events

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the face of global repression, censorship, and criminalization, what does it take for climate defenders to succeed? Climate defenders need lawyers to be on their side. We just launched our annual report, and this was our busiest year-to-date. Read more 👉 www.climatelegaldefense.org/who-we-are

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Congrats to our local partners @greenlegal.bsky.social and their founder and board member, Roda Verheyen, who has been awarded this year's German Environmental Award, Germany's highest environmental distinction. Well deserved! 👏

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What does it take to stand up to the power of the fossil fuel industry? CliDef's Executive Director Betsy Apple recently spoke to @climategroup.bsky.social about why legal protection for climate defenders is essential: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

TOMORROW: Join CliDef and partners for a discussion on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights' upcoming climate advisory opinion and what it means for climate justice. 📅 Tuesday, 12 May 2026, 14:00–15:30 EAT 🔗 RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

What unique role do women lawyers play in supporting women climate defenders? We spoke with @libertyprobono.bsky.social about their work and the challenges facing women activists in Ugandan society, where speaking up can be dangerous and taboo. www.climatelegaldefense.org/blog-alt/cre...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In response to Berta Cáceres murder, 24 countries signed the Escazú Agreement, the first binding international treaty for environmental human rights defenders protections. Our Alfred Brownell is spearheading an effort to negotiate a similar agreement for Africa. news.mongabay.com/2026/03/a-de...

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A decade after the death of Berta Cáceres, we can no longer tolerate threats to environmental activists (commentary)

Environmental activist Berta Cáceres won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for successfully halting the Agua Zarca project, a massive hydropower development along the Gualcarque River in her nat...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"This outcome sends a strong message: energy projects can no longer be imposed on communities without their free, prior, and informed consent,” said Aly Marie Sagne, Executive Director of Lumiere Synergie pour le Developpement and partner of CliDef. 👉 www.climatelegaldefense.org/news-mention...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

In recent years, the scope of who can file an injunction and for what reasons has expanded, particularly in the United Kingdom. Learn more about how injunctions threaten the climate movement in the courts, and how to fight back: www.climatelegaldefense.org/blog/what-is...

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What is an injunction and how are they used against climate defenders? — Global Climate Legal Defense

Injunctions are being used to stop and silence larger groups of protestors near public or fossil fuel infrastructure, especially in the United Kingdom.

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

RSVP to discuss the ethical and safety considerations media and communications professionals should take into consideration when reporting on climate defenders who are living under legal, mental or physical threat, and mass surveillance. Register: 👉 www.climatelegaldefense.org/events/the-e...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

1/4 of the world’s population lives within three miles of operational fossil fuel projects. Proposed projects put an additional 135M people at risk. Climate defenders working to stop development have an exponential impact on human and ecological health. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people

Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our Climate Defender Hotline at #COP30 in Belém, Brazil is live. ⚖️ Climate defenders can reach legal advice via WhatsApp until November 22, 2025. Our on-the-ground legal monitoring team is available for advice and/or representation as necessary. www.climatelegaldefense.org/cop30-en

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Headed to #COP30 in Belém, Brazil this November? Register to attend an upcoming webinar and learn practical steps for holistic security before, during, and after the conference. RSVP: www.climatelegaldefense.org/resources/co...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

No one should be sued or jailed for speaking out. Global Climate Legal Defense is using the law to keep climate defenders free to speak, to act, to associate and free to protect the climate for all of us. 🌳 Read our annual report: static1.squarespace.com/static/650c6...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Everybody's future depends on climate defenders being able to do their critical work. As a community of legal experts, we are there for them. 🌏 Subscribe to updates about CliDef’s work from around the world: climatelegaldefense.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihtw...

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Defending climate defenders to accelerate urgent climate action

YouTube video by Global Climate Legal Defense

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Headed to NYC for Climate Week? RSVP to join us on September 25 at 2PM ET to hear from climate movement leaders, content creators, and independent journalists about navigating the two sides of digital tech. RSVP: www.climatelegaldefense.org/resources/cl...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

CliDef's Alfred Brownell recently spoke with CIVICUS about a petition to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights that calls for governments to protect their citizens from the impacts of climate change. Read the full interview 👉 lens.civicus.org/interview/we...

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‘We need enforceable legal tools to hold governments accountable for climate inaction’

CIVICUS discusses African climate litigation efforts with Liberian environmental rights activist, lawyer and law professor Alfred Lahai Brownell, president of Global Climate Legal Defence and co-found...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Earlier this month, @greenpeace.org initiated the first test of the European Union’s anti-SLAPP Directive by filing a lawsuit in Dutch courts against US-based Energy Transfer. Our team spoke with @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the significance of this case. drilled.media/news/EU-SLAPP

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EU vs. US Courts Face Off on Free Speech

A landmark anti-SLAPP case underway in the EU could result in a European court verdict declaring Energy Transfer’s suit against Greenpeace legal harassment even as the company seeks to collect a $666 ...

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

CliDef is among 40 organisations across 15 European countries that are urging governments to transpose the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive into national law. The new rules address abusive lawsuits against journalists, media, and climate defenders. www.climatelegaldefense.org/news/clidef-...

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CliDef Among 40 Organizations Taking Action Against SLAPPs in Europe — Global Climate Legal Defense

Over 40 organisations across fifteen European countries are urging their governments to make the EU “anti-SLAPP” directive into national law. 

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

📣 Next week, CliDef will bring together leading experts on how SLAPPs are currently impacting climate defenders in Poland. Learn about anti-SLAPP coalitions, and how to engage in the movement to defend free speech and climate action. RSVP: www.climatelegaldefense.org/resources/po...

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CASE Coalition @casecoalition.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📢 Calling Polish environmental defenders! 😶 On June 30, @clidef.bsky.social is hosting a webinar bringing together leading experts to discuss how #SLAPPs are currently impacting climate action in Poland. More info + register here 👉 www.climatelegaldefense.org/resources/po... #StopSLAPPs

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Ochrona działań na rzecz klimatu w Polsce przed SLAPP-ami — Global Climate Legal Defense

Global Climate Legal Defense is hosting a series of webinars to help educate the broader climate movement about the rising threat from SLAPPs, and how to prepare, prevent, and fight back.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 17/12/2024

🔴 NEW 🔴 New report reveals a surge in SLAPP suits across Europe, as the fossil fuel industry weaponizes legal threats to stifle climate action and dissent. But experts say these lawsuits need to be fought, not feared. #SLAPPSuits @stellalevantesi.bsky.social reports: www.desmog.com/2024/12/17/n...

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New Report Shows a Surge in European SLAPP Suits as Fossil Fuel Industry Works to Obstruct Climate Action

But experts say these “abusive” lawsuits, which are designed to demoralize and drain resources from activists, should be fought, not feared.

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Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) @clidef.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A new study has uncovered the risks of participating in climate and environmental activism – and how more and more countries are criminalizing and repressing dissent, rather than tackling the issues provoking the activism. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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