This article, written by ECNL, highlights that restrictions on civil society undermine climate mitigation efforts and impede the collaboration that is so crucial to slowing the climate crisis over the next decade.
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Protecting Civic Space for Climate Activists
This briefer ECNL and ICNL briefer presents key findings and recommendations from the UNSR report on protecting civic space for climate activists.
UNSR Report: Civic Space and Climate Justice
In this report, the UNSR on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association discusses key threats and challenges facing climate defenders.
Green Voices: Public Participation for Climate Activists
ECNL paper on government restrictions that restrain activists/groups from participating in decision-making processes on climate and environmental issues.
Culture and Cultural Rights Dimensions of the Current Climate Emergency
This report, by the UNSR in the field of cultural rights, addresses the cultural and cultural rights dimensions of the current climate emergency.
Preserving Civic Space for Climate Activists
This briefer, presented by ICNL and ECNL, outlines some of the common legal and extralegal measures used to target civil society actors working on climate justice. Many of these measures violate international and regional law, and threaten civil society’s ability to function and find solutions to urgent global environmental challenges.
Overview: Critical Infrastructure Bills in the US
Across the country, communities are gathering at rallies and marches to express concerns about pipelines’ impact on the environment, landowner rights, and indigenous land. “Critical infrastructure” laws target these kinds of gatherings. This ICNL produced one-page overview explains what critical infrastructure laws are and how they can be used to limit freedom of assembly in the US.
Future Trend Report: Climate Change
This briefing explores how states’ responses to the climate crisis over the next two decades will affect civic space for a range of established and new civic actors. It is one in a series commissioned by ICNL as a part of its Civic Space 2040 initiative to help inform civic space advocates about the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Climate Activism from the Frontlines to the UN
PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 2019 This CIVICUS report examines the power of the growing climate movement, as well as restrictions that are holding it back. It also […]
US Legislative Briefer: Critical Infrastructure Bills
This legislative briefer focuses on how critical infrastructure bills can undermine protesters’ right to peaceful assembly by creating draconian penalties for trespass as well as severely penalizing vaguely defined interference with the construction or operation of critical infrastructure sites.