Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef)

Join us for a webinar with leading experts and practitioners to discuss how abusive lawsuits, called SLAPPs, are impacting climate defenders in the Philippines.

You will learn how to engage in the movement to defend activists and communities.

RSVP: www.climatelegaldefense.org/resources/ph...

24.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘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...

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...

14.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 ...

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

14.07.2025 18:11 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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. 

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-...

02.07.2025 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📣 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...

27.06.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

📢 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

23.06.2025 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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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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...

17.12.2024 20:54 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

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

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/...

12.12.2024 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0