🔴BREAKING: TWO UN Special Rapporteurs (Marcos Orellana + David Boyd) just published their comments on human rights principles for the #PlasticsTreaty , to strengthen the current draft (particularly on the R2HE). #INC4 🇨🇦
READ: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/…

1. The recognition of a right to healthy environment & protection from effects of climate change owes much to visionary Maldivian leaders. After initial lobbying in Geneva in March 2006, it followed up by convening a Conference in Male in Nov 2007... /2
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/#_Toc16252…

U.N. emissions data is often out of date, inconsistent, and incomplete.

The result, analysts say, is that the world is flying blind on climate. We do not know if countries are actually meeting their emissions targets.
e360.yale.edu/features/under…

I'm thankful to UN Environment Programme + John H Knox for the opportunity to contribute to the development of human rights guidelines for conservation groups and conservation funders. Bringing conservation efforts in line with human rights standards is crucial to secure a just transition.

📢 🔜 ⚖ 🇪🇺 Several upcoming webinars unpacking key lessons from landmark judgments of the European Court of #HumanRights in #ClimateJustice cases (including the history-making judicial victory in the @KlimaSeniorinnen v. 🇨🇭 Switzerland case):
🧵A short thread with key dates⬇️

⚡️⚖️a few snapshots from the landmark #ClimateJustice decision delivered today by the 🇪🇺European Court of Human Rights in Klimaseniorinnen v. 🇨🇭Switzerland
🧵a short thread focusing on the scope of substantive obligations of States...⬇️

Today the Eur. Court of Human Rights ECHR CEDH held that the European Convention requires States to seek net neutrality within three decades with adequate interim measures to that end, and that Switzerland was failing to do so, violating the rights of senior women. Huge win!

🆕 🗣 Public service announcement: here is a new collaborative listing of webinars related to environmental rights ⚖ 🌱 🌍
🚀 🔊 Let's make info about webinars organized on these matters around the world more readily available!
🔗link to the listing: bit.ly/GreenRightsWeb…
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From our archives: Using satellite data and smartphone technology, Panama's Indigenous people are tracking loggers who illegally encroach on their lands.

Read more Yale Environment 360: bit.ly/3KZy5Le

Immensely proud & humbled to be nominated as next Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment

Honored to be the first woman & person from the Global South, on the mandate, and to follow amazing legacy from John H Knox and SREnvironment 🙌🏽

Congratulations to Elisa! She is a wonderful choice for this crucial mandate!

This is great news for human rights and for the environment. The right to a healthy environment needs eloquent, stalwart champions like Astrid. She is a brilliant choice!

First thing first, we are thrilled to see two women appointed as new UN Special Rapporteurs:
🪇🇲🇽 Astrid Puentes Riaño for the position of SREnvironment, &
🪇🇮🇹 Elisa Morgera for the position of @SRClimate.

Read more in our statement: ciel.org/news/ciel-welc…

Still thinking of stunning Grotius lecture by Dame Meg Taylor of PacificEldersVoice w poignant commentary by Julian on Pacific leadership on #InternationalLaw & climate change; on colonialism & struggles for survival & sovereignty

“Hope is a ghost island”
#ASILAM #ASILAM 24

In response to #SouthAfrica ’s request of 6 March 2024 & the deteriorating situation in #Gaza , the #ICJ has modified the provisional measures that it indicated against #Israel on 26 January. Here are some key points and observations on the decision and the separate opinions.🧵1/20

¿Por qué la reciente sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre #LaOroya 🇵🇪 es tan importante?

Porque es una victoria para sus residentes que también puede dar frutos para todas las comunidades en el continente que buscan justicia ambiental.

Te explicamos👇🧵

⚡🚨⚖ Upcoming: Major moment for #ClimateLitigation at ⚖️🇪🇺ECHR CEDH of #HumanRights with 3 decisions expected to pave way for future rulings addressing States responsibility under European Convention of #HumanRights (ECHR) to prevent climate-related harms
🧵A short thread👇

Three forthcoming Grand Chamber rulings in cases concerning climate change
hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion…
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHR press

When a 'dzud' wiped out 700,000 livestock in 2018, it was a disaster for Mongolia. This year's dzud had killed 2 million as of last month.

Now it's 5.2 million -- and could hit 20 million by May.

A surreal climate catastrophe in a democratic nation:
huffpost.com/entry/mongolia…

Here’s a very valuable and informative explanation from the incoming Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment of the new decision by the Inter-American Court on the right to a healthy environment!