CliDef Launches New Report on “The Dangerous Lives of Climate Defenders”

Climate advocacy is a dangerous business. Fossil fuel companies and their government partners are desperately trying to protect and even expand their investments using every powerful tool at their disposal, including the law.

Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) is the first organization dedicated exclusively to legally defending climate defenders. CliDef has launched a new report and photo essay, “The Dangerous Lives of Climate Defenders,” during Climate Week in New York City to show just a few of the extraordinary climate defenders facing grave legal risks in every region in the world.

Climate defenders featured in the report include:

• Nicole Figueiredo de Oliveira, Executive Director, Instituto Internacional Arayara, Brazil

• Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham), Wet’suwet’en Nation, Canada

• Mugaruka Katembo Rodrigue and Bahati Lukoo Emmanuel, Park Rangers, Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

• Maha Ahmed, Human Rights Lawyer, Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), Egypt

• Ritwick Dutta, Founder, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), India

• Alfred Brownell, Founding President, Global Climate Legal Defense, Liberia,

• Alejandra Ancheita, Founder and Executive Director, ProDESC (The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project), Mexico

• Anabela Lamos, Dipti Bhatnagar, and Erika Mendes, Justiça Ambiental, Mozambique

• Jerielyn Navarro, fisherwoman and Derek Cabe, Nuclear and Coal-Free Bataan Movement (NCFB), Philippines

• Anthony Odur and Peter Aranaintwe, Human Rights Lawyer, Uganda

• Sarah Benn, Medical Doctor, United Kingdom