The UN HRC recognizes the right to a healthy environment and appoints a new Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change. What does it all mean?

Citation

Savaresi A (2021) The UN HRC recognizes the right to a healthy environment and appoints a new Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change. What does it all mean?. University of Stirling Public Policy Blog [Blog post] 20.10.2021. https://policyblog.stir.ac.uk/

Abstract
First paragraph: On Friday 8 October, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 48/13, recognising for first time that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right and calling on UN Member States to cooperate to implement this right.

Notes
This post first appeared on EJIL Talk: the blog of the European Journal of International Law on 12th October 2021.

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Professor Annalisa Savaresi

Professor, Law