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Lien Vandamme

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Fill The Fund @fillthefund.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"This is not charity. It's not solidarity. It is an obligation." @lienvandamme.bsky.social @ciel.org emphasizes that the devastating Nepal floods are a stress test for the Loss & Damage Fund. The ICJ has affirmed: breaching climate obligations means paying full reparations. ⚖️
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 18/06/2026
🚨 The #JuneClimateMeetings are drawing to an end in Bonn, with only one more day to close the negotiations. One important thing that was missing on the official agenda for the talks? #LossAndDamage. A 🧵 📸 @iisd.org
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 18/06/2026
The #JuneClimateMeetings further exposed the structural barriers slowing climate action: 🤝#ConsensusKillsAmbition, 🕴️Corporate influence, 🪑Barriers to participation. It's high time for States to #FixTheUNFCCC. Read more in our statement: www.ciel.org/news/june-cl...
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June Climate Talks Expose Hard Truth: COP31 Must Reform the UNFCCC to Deliver Climate Action - Center for International Environmental Law
June Climate Meetings in Bonn highlight urgent demands for UNFCCC reform, stronger participation rights, and safeguards against corporate influence.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 18/06/2026
"A climate process that remains vulnerable to obstruction and corporate influence cannot deliver the action this crisis demands," said @ciel.org.
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Bonn Conference Confirms Climate Action Impossible Unless Corporate Capture of UN Process Ends
"A climate process that remains vulnerable to obstruction and corporate influence cannot deliver the action this crisis demands," said one group.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 15/06/2026
The #UNFCCC must also adopt a zero-tolerance approach to: ❌ Intimidation, ❌ Harassment, ❌ Violence, and ❌ Reprisals against observers and establish a dedicated focal point to monitor incidents, document abuses, and support accountability and redress.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 15/06/2026
🚨 #SB64: During discussions on Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings #AIM, Türkiye indicated that the Host Country Agreement (HCA) for #COP31 was signed earlier this week and will be published soon. This is welcome news. A 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 10/06/2026
🆕 briefing! As the #ClimateCrisis worsens, one thing is crystal clear: The climate talks are falling short! The key sticking point? Consensus kills ambition! At #SB64, the call to #FixTheUNFCCC is growing louder. Read more in our NEW briefing: www.ciel.org/reports/voti... A 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 15/06/2026
Starting now at #JuneClimateMeetings: A @amnesty.org's press conference on #HumanRights and meaningful participation at the climate talks. CIEL's @lienvandamme.bsky.social will speak about "the other side of the coin": #ConflictOfInterest. Tune in: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB64_113315/...
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🚨 #SB64 event alert 🚨 Concerned about the climate crisis & that the UNFCCC isn’t working? Interested in how to fix it? It's time to fight back against attacks on multilateralism & undermining of int'l law. Join us to discuss effective & inclusive global climate governance & create #TheCOPWeNeed.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 09/06/2026
To remain fit for purpose, the UNFCCC must evolve: 🗳️Move beyond veto-driven consensus, 🕴️‍♂️Address conflicts of interest, and 🛟Protect participation & civic space. Where gaps remain, complementary pathways, from fossil fuel phaseout efforts to climate reparations, must advance.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 09/06/2026
🚨 #SB64 event alert 🚨 On June 12 at 12pm CEST, join us for a critical discussion on how to reform and build global climate responses amid attacks on multilateralism, impunity, and the undermining of international law, to strengthen #HumanRights, accountability, and effectiveness 👇👇
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Belém showed the cost of consensus. Santa Marta showed appetite to move forward regardless. New York/the Hague showed willingness to translate climate law into practice. Bonn must show that the UNFCCC can keep up. Read more about @ciel.org's expectations for #SB64 👇 www.ciel.org/bonn-unfccc-...
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Climate Action is Moving. Can the UNFCCC Keep Up? - Center for International Environmental Law
As climate action gains momentum, Bonn must show the UNFCCC can reform, uphold climate law, and deliver finance, justice, and accountability.
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🔥 the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly is about to be called upon to #VoteYesForClimateJustice as it considers an important resolution tabled by 🇻🇺 Vanuatu (and others) to welcome and build upon the historic #ClimateJustice ruling by the 🌐 ⚖️ International Court of Justice! 🧵⬇️ follow proceedings in thread below
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Together with 455.000+ people across the globe, I'll be closely watching TODAY's UNGA session 🇺🇳 Will States #VoteYESforClimateJustice? 👀 🔗 Draft #ClimateAccountability resolution: docs.un.org/A/80/L.65 ⏯️ Tune in live (+/- 11am ET): webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1u... Time to #ActOnTheClimateRuling
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 22/11/2025
📢 The climate talks #COP30 in Belém conclude with a largely empty deal: ❌ No halt to deforestation, ❌ No fossil fuel phaseout, and ❌ No climate finance at the scale the crisis demands. Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/cop30-f... A 🧵👇
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 21/11/2025
📣 At #COP30, one thing is clear: The framework that guides the climate talks is falling short! Colombian minister Irene Vélez Torres goes straight to the point while explaining why #FossilFuels aren’t COP30 text: Consensus kills ambition‼️ We couldn't agree more! A 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 20/11/2025
#COP31 is now expected to be held in Turkey after Australia dropped its bid to host the event, in return for its minister chairing the talks. Choosing a host shouldn't be a saga. The decision should be made based on their commitment to #ClimateJustice, science & #HumanRights. A short 🧵 👇
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔥 Spot on remarks by Colombia minister Irene Vélez Torres 🔥 UN climate talks continue ending up in lowest-common-denominator-outcomes failing to uphold legal obligations because of the way the process is built. Consensus kills ambition. Reform is urgent. #TheCOPWeNeed
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Erika Lennon @erikalennon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Week 2 has begun at #COP30 with unacceptable measures being taken. A #UNFCCC letter triggered a massive security escalation in Belém—intimidating Indigenous Peoples & silencing peaceful protest. Indigenous defenders are protecting the planet; they must never be sidelined in #ClimateAction.🧵
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Kumi Naidoo @kuminaidoo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Momentum keeps building 🙌 Incredible development from our High-Level Ministerial event here at #COP30 Cambodia’s leadership strengthens the push for a global agreement to end expansion and scale finance for a just, people-centred transition. ✊🌎
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧 🚨 175+ orgs urgently call on Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, to immediately reverse the harmful directive sent to Brazil that has massively intensified the presence of security forces at #COP30 and in the streets of Belém. 🔗 climaterights.org/wp-content/u...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 17/11/2025
#IndigenousPeoples came to #COP30 to defend their land, future & our planet. They were met with lines of security forces. This is the result of a UNFCCC letter. We joined 170+ orgs in calling on the UNFCCC to de-escalate, listen & protect the right to peaceful protest. A mini 🧵
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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨200+ orgs call on #UNFCCC to reverse the harmful directive that escalated security at #COP30. ✊We stand in solidarity with #IndigenousPeoples & Env. Human Rights Defenders. We call on the #UNFCCC to de-escalate & protect the right to peaceful protest at #COP30 and beyond. 👉Read: shorturl.at/2vGaj
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 14/11/2025
From #COP30 in Belém: Human Rights & Justice Days are on the main stage. UN Human Rights and Special Envoys brought movements ➕ experts together with one message: climate action must be human-rights–based to be effective. #ClimateJustice A 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 14/11/2025
Several States at #COP30 are feeling nervous this week. Turns out, clarifying your legal obligations is uncomfortable when you’ve been ignoring them. A short thread to clarify how the International Court of Justice climate ruling is a lens 🔎 not handcuffs 🚔. A 🧵
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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
#COP30 does business as usual on land that belongs to #IndigenousPeoples, while the #UNFCCC excludes their voices & denies their right to participate. This week’s actions by Munduruku Indigenous Peoples from Brazil were powerful reactions to deep-rooted rights violations ignored for far too long. 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 14/11/2025
📢 #FossilFuel lobbyists have received 2/3 more passes to #COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined, showing how industry presence continues to overshadow that of those on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. Time to #KickOutTheSuits!
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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
#COP30 is taking place in Brazil, home to more than 300 Indigenous Peoples safeguarding the Amazon. Once again, the #UNFCCC sidelines #IndigenousPeoples, denying them effective participation in the very spaces where their future is negotiated. 👉 Read: apnews.com/article/unit... 🧵👇
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Indigenous groups get the spotlight at UN climate talks, but some say visibility isn't power
This year's United Nations climate talks in Brazil are putting a special focus on Indigenous peoples.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/11/2025
"One in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." 😡😡 "This is corporate capture, not climate governance,” said @lienvandamme.bsky.social of @ciel.org.
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today in @canclimateaction.bsky.social's #COP30 #ECO newsletter: why the International Court of Justice climate ruling matters, incl. for #LossAndDamage 👏 to the many countries ready to secure decisions that uphold the law ❌ pushback should be isolated 🗣️ those remaining silent must speak up
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 12/11/2025
Today, CIEL & Climate Action Network joined 5 thousand people from 60 countries sailing on the rivers surrounding the #COP30 host city. The #AmazonFlotilla is not just a protest or a journey. It's an #IndigenousPeoples-led act of resistance, hope & empowerment: amazonflotilla.quipa.org A 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 11/11/2025
Today at the #Portugal Pavilion 🇵🇹 at #COP30: powerful panel on protecting Environmental Human Rights Defenders. #EHRDs. Happening during Gender Action Day is a reminder that climate action only works when the people, particularly women, defending our planet can do so safely.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 11/11/2025
‼️ NEW opinion piece by CIEL's Rebecca Brown and @lienvandamme.bsky.social for @climatechangenews.com ‼️ The world doesn’t just need stronger climate targets. It needs a fairer, faster, and more accountable multilateral system to deliver #ClimateAction. 👉 ciel.org/we-must-rewr... 👈 A 🧵
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 10/11/2025
On the 1⃣ day of #COP30, the #LossAndDamageFund opened the call for proposals for its start-up phase. #COP30 must give guidance to scale the Fund in line with needs & to center justice, rights, without this the Fund risks becoming a climate bank with neither money nor remedy. A 🧵
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Camilla Pollera @camillapollera.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In the heart of the Amazon, for #COP30 🇧🇷🌎 The next two weeks, I’ll be in Belém advocating with @ciel.org and allies in the Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group for #HumanRights-based climate action, grounded in #law, #justice & #accountability. 🧵
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Exclusive by me: How thousands fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then oil and gas companies kept drilling www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Arrived in Belém for #COP30, the first one after the historic climate ruling by the International Court of Justice ⚖️ @ciel.org will be on the ground advocating for climate action based on legal obligations and calling for a deep reform of the UN climate regime to make it more effective & inclusive.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 07/11/2025
✊ We need to reform the climate negotiations process and make sure the voices of people on the frontlines, not the voices of polluters, are taking center stage. ✊ READ our call to #FixTheUNFCCC: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u... #TheCOPWeNeed #KickBigPollutersOut
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 07/11/2025
🚨Breaking🚨 🕴️Just a few days ahead of #COP30, today, the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition uncovered that there are more than 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the climate talks over the past four years. It's high time to #KickBigPollutersOut: www.theguardian.com/environment/... A 🧵
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How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 05/11/2025
🚨New analysis: States are flouting their legal duties re. #NDCs. With only 64 NDCs (roughly ⅓ of countries) in at #COP30, few polluters on target, & many major emitters’ plans missing, the world is failing to prevent harm & keep warming below 1.5°C. unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 05/11/2025
⚖️ This isn’t just a policy gap: it’s a breach of legal duty. The #ICJ has ruled: NDCs are not wholly discretionary. States must: ✅ Submit on time ✅ Raise ambition over time ✅ Align with the 1.5°C limit ✅ Deliver their highest possible ambition
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 06/11/2025
🛡️ #COP30 is a crucial opportunity to protect environmental defenders: bit.ly/47rtOyv CIEL’s @camillapollera.bsky.social explains why protection is a legal duty and how Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) and Gender Action Plan (GAP) decisions in Belém can make it real.
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
1/14. 📢NEW BRIEF: What does the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ⚖️historic Advisory Opinion (#ICJAO) on the obligations 🧑‍⚖️ of states in regard to #ClimateChange mean for #LossAndDamage 🔥🌊⛈️ under the #UNFCCC? 🤔 🔗Find out here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/th... @ciel.org
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 22/10/2025
🌎 Ahead of #COP30, we need less politics & more law. 🗣️ CIEL's @erikalennon.bsky.social, says this year the world must break the political gridlock that has defined climate negotiations. Countries must take ambitious climate action or risk violating their obligations under int'l law.👇 bit.ly/4ovq70n
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The Verdict Is In: To Comply with the Law, COP30 Must Deliver - Center for International Environmental Law
Landmark court rulings make clear: climate action is a legal duty, not a choice. At COP30, countries must act in line with the law.
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Happening NOW in the Philippines 🔥 💰 Governments spend $1.2tn for military budget while leaving crumbs for #LossAndDamage. This is unacceptable! Philippine & international civil society stand in solidarity with Palestine & climate-frontline communities, calling to #EndTheGenocide & #FillTheFund!
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 06/10/2025
🚨 The 7th Board meeting of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage starts tomorrow in Manila. But the Fund is on life support: $399M paid in - less than 0.1% of the hundreds of billions needed. And key promises on access for communities and all climate-vulnerable countries not being met.
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This week, the #LossAndDamage Fund has an opportunity to change course towards a fund rooted in justice. The Board meets for the 1st time since the International Court of Justice issued its historic climate ruling, with major implications for the Fund 👇 www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/03/t...
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The ICJ climate ruling has major implications for the loss and damage fund
As the fund struggles with lack of money and bureaucratic barriers, its board must align its actions with the landmark court decision
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CIEL Unite @cielunite.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#BlocchiamoTutto. Against governments’ silence, against genocide, against impunity. As workers across Italy call for a #GeneralStrike, CIEL UNITE shows its unwavering solidarity with the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, striking workers in Italy, and all those resisting genocide.
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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Climate Action Network International will be on strike on October 3rd as a mark of solidarity with: 🇵🇸 the Palestinian people 🚢 the illegally abducted activists on the #GlobalSumudFlotilla 🇮🇹 and Italian unions calling for action. climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c... #FreePalestine
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CAN condemns illegal Israeli aggression against the Global Sumud Flotilla and its activists - Climate Action Network
Climate Action Network condemns Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters on October 2nd 2025, and the subsequent abduction of the activists onboard...
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