Category: Canada
Environmental Harm, Disability, and the Importance of Procedural Environmental Rights
by Katherine Lofts & Chloe Rourke, McGill University This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. Although environmental harms disproportionately impact persons with disabilities, they have often been excluded from environmental governance processes, reinforcing existing inequities and leading to inaccessible policies and…
Overview of the Function of the Aarhus Convention and Potential Lessons for the Canadian Context
by Anna Stabb This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. Procedural Environmental Rights and Environmental Justice in Canada Environmental justice is a growing concern in Canada. For example, in 2020, a human rights report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the…
