Central America faces climate crises, shrinking civic space, and growing adverse impacts from business projects. In response, communities are implementing strategies to defend their territories and advance climate justice.

This interactive workshop, co-facilitated by PILnet, ProDESC, RADDH, and lawyers specializing in corporate accountability, will show how strategic legal alliances can strengthen territorial defense. Participants will learn to anticipate risks before projects cause irreversible harm, through contract analysis, the right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), and human rights due diligence.

Through real cases presented by RADDH and ProDESC to a “legal anticipation laboratory,” participants will identify gaps and risks and how legal support can contribute to preventive environmental and territorial defense strategies focused on corporate accountability.