Lotte Leicht
@lotteleicht.bsky.social
Advocacy Director, Climate Rights International http://cri.org Jurist. Int'l Humanitarian, Human Rights & Criminal Law Int'l Justice Boards: ECCHR (Chair), Dignity,
"This is where the people stand, and I stand with the people." That's #AmericanSamoa's congressional representative, Amata Coleman Radewagen, on her opposition to a US Govt plan to industrialize waters her constituents have depended on for 3,000 years. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
How Deep Sea Mining Endangers American Samoa | Lotte Leicht
"This is where the people stand, and I stand with the people." That's #AmericanSamoa's congressional representative, Amata Coleman Radewagen, on her opposition to a US Govt plan to industrialize wate...
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Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios theconversation.com/why-climate-...
Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios
London probably won’t disappear beneath the waves. But we still need to understand the most dangerous outcomes that remain possible – and avoidable.
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📣 One year ago, the world's highest Court, the #ICJ spoke with unprecedented clarity on the #ClimateCrisis: States have binding legal obligations to protect the #ClimateSystem and the #HumanRights of present and future generations. Not aspirations. Obligations‼️ www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change | Lotte Leicht
📣 One year ago, the world's highest court ⚖️ spoke, and it spoke with a clarity int'l law had never before offered on the #ClimateCrisis. The International Criminal Court (#ICJ) delivered a unanimous...
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US announces campaign to dismantle #ICC All ICC States should close ranks: reaffirming political, financial, and diplomatic support for the Court, protecting its officials and staff, and making clear that coercion aimed at one member is coercion aimed at all of them www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
State Department Launches Campaign to Dismantle International Criminal Court’s Threat to American Sovereignty - United States Department of State | Lotte Leicht
Here we go again ... The #US State Department announces a "whole-of-government campaign" to dismantle the ⚖️ International Criminal Court. The tools on the table: pressure campaigns urging states to ...
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Is #ClimateJustice Starting to Catch Up With Big Polluters? Three cases, three countries, three legal theories—and they may soon collide Read my take posted on Climate Rights International's Substack: 👇 climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Is Climate Justice Starting to Catch Up With Big Polluters? Three cases, three countries, three legal theories—and they may soon collide
By Lotte Leicht
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🆕 New report from Climate Rights International:" #EU Laws and #Brazil's Cattle Supply Chains: Implications for the Beef and Leather Trade" The Amazon is an important defense against the #ClimateCrisis. Cattle ranching remains a driver of deforestation and abuses. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
EU Laws and Brazil’s Cattle Supply Chains | Lotte Leicht
🆕 New report from Climate Rights International: "EU Laws and Brazil's Cattle Supply Chains: Implications for the Beef and Leather Trade" The Amazon is one of our strongest defenses against the #Clima...
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Oil and gas companies knew. For decades New Center for Climate Integrity report, based on internal industry docs, shows #FossilFuel companies have known since at least the 1960-70s their operations were leaking far more methane than they ever disclosed publicly. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest | Lotte Leicht
Oil and gas companies knew. For decades ‼️ 📣 A new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, based on internal industry documents, shows that #FossilFuel companies have known since at least the ...
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Chinese Government Ecological “Inspection Tour” Will Hear Few Critical Voices open.substack.com/pub/climater...
Chinese Government Ecological “Inspection Tour” Will Hear Few Critical Voices
By Sophie Richardson
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A new offshore oil and gas boom is unfolding across Africa. Governments promise development, but coastal communities are already paying the price through lost fishing grounds, pollution, and growing climate risks. climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/new-oil-pr...
New Oil Producers, Old Dilemmas: Sub-Saharan Africa's Offshore Oil Bet Risks Coastal Communities and Climate Goals
By Fabien Offner
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📣 One year ago, the world's highest Court, the #ICJ spoke with unprecedented clarity on the #ClimateCrisis: States have binding legal obligations to protect the #ClimateSystem and the #HumanRights of present and future generations. Not aspirations. Obligations‼️ www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change | Lotte Leicht
📣 One year ago, the world's highest court ⚖️ spoke, and it spoke with a clarity int'l law had never before offered on the #ClimateCrisis. The International Criminal Court (#ICJ) delivered a unanimous...
linkedin.com
Oil and gas companies knew. For decades New Center for Climate Integrity report, based on internal industry docs, shows #FossilFuel companies have known since at least the 1960-70s their operations were leaking far more methane than they ever disclosed publicly. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest | Lotte Leicht
Oil and gas companies knew. For decades ‼️ 📣 A new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, based on internal industry documents, shows that #FossilFuel companies have known since at least the ...
linkedin.com
🆕 New report from Climate Rights International:" #EU Laws and #Brazil's Cattle Supply Chains: Implications for the Beef and Leather Trade" The Amazon is an important defense against the #ClimateCrisis. Cattle ranching remains a driver of deforestation and abuses. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
EU Laws and Brazil’s Cattle Supply Chains | Lotte Leicht
🆕 New report from Climate Rights International: "EU Laws and Brazil's Cattle Supply Chains: Implications for the Beef and Leather Trade" The Amazon is one of our strongest defenses against the #Clima...
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#ICC staffer talks publicly about alleged sexual abuse by chief prosecutor Karim Khan Female lawyer tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about alleged ‘escalation of attempts’ as second woman also speaks out Via The Guardian: 👇 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul...
ICC staffer talks publicly about alleged sexual abuse by chief prosecutor Karim Khan
Female lawyer tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about alleged ‘escalation of attempts’ as second woman also speaks out
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Is #ClimateJustice Starting to Catch Up With Big Polluters? Three cases, three countries, three legal theories—and they may soon collide Read my take posted on Climate Rights International's Substack: 👇 climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Is Climate Justice Starting to Catch Up With Big Polluters? Three cases, three countries, three legal theories—and they may soon collide
By Lotte Leicht
climaterightsinternational.substack.com
US announces campaign to dismantle #ICC All ICC States should close ranks: reaffirming political, financial, and diplomatic support for the Court, protecting its officials and staff, and making clear that coercion aimed at one member is coercion aimed at all of them www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
State Department Launches Campaign to Dismantle International Criminal Court’s Threat to American Sovereignty - United States Department of State | Lotte Leicht
Here we go again ... The #US State Department announces a "whole-of-government campaign" to dismantle the ⚖️ International Criminal Court. The tools on the table: pressure campaigns urging states to ...
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Is #ClimateJustice Starting to Catch Up With Big Polluters? Three cases, three countries, three legal theories—and they may soon collide Read my take on @climaterights.bsky.social Substack open.substack.com/pub/climater...
Is Climate Justice Starting to Catch Up With Big Polluters? Three cases, three countries, three legal theories—and they may soon collide
By Lotte Leicht
open.substack.com
France could reopen its overseas territories to new oil and gas exploration, despite its international climate commitments. “French lawmakers should be providing leadership on climate action, not reversing it,” said CRI researcher @Fabien Offner. cri.org/france-rejec...
France: Reject New Oil and Gas Exploration in Overseas Territories
French lawmakers should reject any attempt to authorize the resumption of exploration and extraction of oil and gas in France’s overseas territories, where new fossil fuel exploration permits have bee...
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#Fifa named the problem of #ClimateChange in its promotional materials but only pretends to address it. A “green card for the planet”? More like a big middle finger The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its climate promises, the 2026 edition will be even worse www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup is on pace to be a climate catastrophe
The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its environmental promises. From air travel emissions to heat-related dangers, the 2026 edition will be even worse
theguardian.com
Extreme heat is a human rights crisis. In Dhaka, CRI researcher Cara Schulte documented workers facing dangerous heat on the job. No one should have to choose between health and survival. #HeatActionDay substack.com/@climaterigh...
I’ve Met the Workers Who Make Your Clothes. The Climate Crisis is Slowly Killing Them.
By Cara Schulte
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Extreme heat is a human rights crisis. Millions lack access to cooling, safe work, and basic protections as temperatures rise. Read our comprehensive report on heat and human rights to learn more: cri.org/reports/i-ca... #HeatActionDay
'I Can't Cool': Extreme Heat and Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change
The acceleration of global warming has resulted in rising temperatures and an unprecedented frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves worldwide, creating a human rights crisis that all levels o...
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Uganda’s Protection of Sovereignty Act risks criminalizing legitimate environmental and human rights advocacy through vague provisions that criminalize promoting "foreign interests" over national interests. cri.org/uganda-draco...
Uganda: Draconian Law Threatens Climate and Environmental Defenders
Uganda's newly gazetted “The Protection of Sovereignty Act” is aimed at limiting the activities and voices of environmental defenders, climate activists, and other civil society organizations, Climate...
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Ja. Soweit ich weiß, wurde das IGH-Gutachten schon im "Bonaire"-Urteil gg die Niederlande erwähnt. Bin allerdings unsicher, wie stark der IGH das Urteil schon beeinflusst hat. @lotteleicht.bsky.social erwartet z.B., dass weitere Klagen folgen werden. (Das Urteil: www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...)
Niederlande müssen Karibikinsel vor Klimawandel schützen
Die niederländische Karibikinsel Bonaire leidet unter den Folgen des Klimawandels. Nun entschied ein Gericht: Die Niederlande müssen bis 2030 Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Insel und der Einwohner ergreifen...
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🚨 Nordic investors are sounding the alarm. The #EU must hold firm on Arctic drilling, and international law backs them up www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change | Lotte Leicht
🚨 Nordic investors are sounding the alarm. The #EU must hold firm on Arctic drilling, and international law backs them up Reuters reports that Nordea Asset Management, Sampension, KLP and 11 other i...
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The European Union must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, Leena Ylä-Mononen, the head of the #EU's Environment Agency says. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU | Lotte Leicht
The European Union must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, Leena Ylä-Mononen, the head of the EU's Environment Agency says. “We still lack really clear me...
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The European Union must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, Leena Ylä-Mononen, the head of the #EU's Environment Agency says. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU | Lotte Leicht
The European Union must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, Leena Ylä-Mononen, the head of the EU's Environment Agency says. “We still lack really clear me...
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#ClimateJustice: Rather than legislating to protect some of #NewZealand’s biggest GHG polluting companies, Parliament should instead reject this shortsighted legislation and allow Mr Smith his day in court. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
New Zealand Moves to Ban Tort Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Damage - Inside Climate News | Lotte Leicht
#ClimateJustice: Rather than legislating to protect some of #NewZealand’s biggest GHG polluting companies, Parliament should instead reject this shortsighted legislation and allow Mr Smith his day in ...
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Record heat, drought, extreme rainfall and tropical cyclones hit communities and economies across Latin America & the Caribbean in 2025. Glacier melt increased floods and water security risks. WMO #StateofClimate in Latin America & the Caribbean 2025, OUT NOW. ↪️bit.ly/LACStateOfClimate2025PR
#Fifa named the problem of #ClimateChange in its promotional materials but only pretends to address it. A “green card for the planet”? More like a big middle finger The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its climate promises, the 2026 edition will be even worse www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup is on pace to be a climate catastrophe
The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its environmental promises. From air travel emissions to heat-related dangers, the 2026 edition will be even worse
theguardian.com
‘That Day, We Realized the Russians Had Come to Kill Us’ Survivors of the siege of Mariupol recall the bombing of its most populated civilian shelter. www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...
‘That Day, We Realized the Russians Had Come to Kill Us’ | Lotte Leicht
"That day, we realized the Russians had come to kill us. They didn't come to fight with Ukrainian soldiers. They just wanted to kill us." Those words, spoken by a survivor of the #Mariupol Drama Thea...
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