CliDef is organizing a legal protection hotline and on-the-ground support during COP28, where activists in Dubai can access urgent legal advice if they find themselves in trouble at the airports, the conference, or in the UAE at-large.

The proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a 1,443-kilometer pipeline connecting oilfields in western Uganda with the port of Tanga in eastern Tanzania. The project could displace more than 100,000 people. In response, CliDef has supported young climate activists, including university and high school students facing arrests, frivolous criminal charges, detentions, and lawsuits for their work with the #StopEACOP campaign.

Plans for a fleet of new fossil gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, despite its proximity to an ecologically sensitive marine corridor known as the Verde Island Passage (VIP). VIP is often called the “Amazon”‘ of oceans. CliDef is supporting defenders on the ground seeking to stop construction.

CliDef organized a legal protection hotline and a team of on-the-ground lawyers to serve activists in Sharm El-Sheikh who needed urgent legal help at the airports, the conference, or in general.

Although Virunga National Park’s pristine wilderness has been granted protections under Congolese and international law, companies from Europe and elsewhere are pursuing plans for coal, oil, and gas extraction in and around the park.

CliDef is supporting local organizers and legal networks that defend climate activists who have been arrested for peaceful civil disobedience challenging fossil fuels in Switzerland.

As legal repression grows in France, Alternatiba Paris built a legal team for climate activists and prepared legal support for a coalition of climate activists who protested at the 2023 TotalEnergies General Meeting. Four activists were arrested and charged with two serious offenses.

CliDef is supporting local organizers and legal networks that defend climate activists who have been arrested for peaceful civil disobedience challenging fossil fuels in Austria.

CliDef is supporting local lawyers that defend climate activists who have been arrested for peaceful civil disobedience while challenging the increased build-out of fossil fuel infrastructure in western Canada.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a proposed fracked gas pipeline that could run a nearly 400-mile route from West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina, threatening communities and one of the most diverse temperate forests in the world.

We are working to identify the risks faced by climate defenders challenging massive coal, oil, and LNG licenses, deforestation, and hydropower projects in Mozambique through relationships with local lawyers and legal organizations.

CliDef is organizing a legal protection hotline and on-the-ground support during COP28, where activists in Dubai can access urgent legal advice if they find themselves in trouble at the airports, the conference, or in the UAE at-large.