diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c172f29..db4b18e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/) and this p
 - Update execution report
 - Reduce memory usage when parsing graphs from CMEM by creating temporary file 
 - Validate parameters at initialisation
+- Removed SSL_VERIFY=False environment variable setting for requests 
 
 ## [5.1.0] 2024-12-03
 
diff --git a/cmem_plugin_pyshacl/plugin_pyshacl.py b/cmem_plugin_pyshacl/plugin_pyshacl.py
index db7c2fa..2b4409b 100644
--- a/cmem_plugin_pyshacl/plugin_pyshacl.py
+++ b/cmem_plugin_pyshacl/plugin_pyshacl.py
@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
 
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from datetime import UTC, datetime
-from os import environ
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from time import time
-from warnings import simplefilter
 
 import validators.url
 from cmem.cmempy.dp.proxy.graph import get_streamed, post_streamed
@@ -45,10 +43,6 @@
     URIRef,
 )
 from rdflib.term import Node
-from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
-
-environ["SSL_VERIFY"] = "false"
-simplefilter("ignore", category=InsecureRequestWarning)
 
 SKOSXL = Namespace("http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos-xl#")
 SH_PROPERTIES = [