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Recent recognition of the human right to a healthy environment by the United Nations can facilitate a shift in climate policy and shape climate litigation. Now, a recent study discusses these benefits and the potential to assist social movements in garnering political pressure towards stronger climate action.

The recent UNGA resolution is the culmination of a vibrant global campaign for international recognition of the right to a healthy environment, which enjoyed support from states, civil society, legal scholars and various UN agencies. The first moment of celebrations was on 18 October 2021, when the UN Human Rights Council recognized the right4. Mirroring language from this earlier resolution, the UNGA resolution recognizes environmental degradation and climate change as some of the most pressing threats to humanity’s future. It calls on states to step up efforts to ensure that their people have access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. This call is timely against a backdrop of an enormous implementation gap in environmental and climate change law, with few states taking all of the actions required by the myriad of laws designed to protect nature and counter climate change. The obligations of states under international environmental law, including that on climate change, are explicitly referenced in the resolution.

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  1. Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh

  2. Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

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Wewerinke-Singh, M. Enabling the right to a healthy environment. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2022). https://ift.tt/QJP5OeH

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