Category: Community
Culture- vs Health-focused Arguments in Climate Change Litigation: Any Implications for Rights-based Litigation in Europe?
By Linnéa Nordlander Rights-based climate change litigation has significantly increased in Europe in recent years, especially following the landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in Urgenda Foundation v Netherlands in 2019. The decision inspired similar rights-based ‘systemic mitigation’ cases in other European jurisdictions and before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).…
Access to justice and human rights approaches to procedural environmental rights: lessons from and for Canada – A Call for Blog Posts and Bibliography Submissions
by Sara L Seck & Erin Dobbelsteyn The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was formally recognized by member states of the UN General Assembly in July 2022 with 161 states voting in favour, none against, and only 8 abstentions (A/RES/76/300). This followed the recognition of the right by the UN Human Rights…
Workshop on “Global climate change litigation and the rise of international adjudication” – 30 June 2023
We warmly invite you to join us, online or in person, at a Workshop on “Global climate change litigation and the rise of international adjudication”. The workshop is hosted by the Centre for International Law and Globalisation, Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment and will take place on 30 June in…
Watch the recording – Virtual Book Launch of Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
The virtual launch of Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges, edited by Prof Walter F. Baber and Prof James R. May, took place on 10 April 2023. The event was hosted by GNHRE and the Environmental Law Institute at Widener University Delaware Law School. You can watch the launch here: About…
Can the Right to A Healthy Environment Remedy the Chronic TSD Enforcement Problem?
Enforcing Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters of EU Free Trade Agreements through the Essential Elements Clauses by Saide Esra Akdogan The recent United Nations General Assembly resolution that recognized the universal human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment was welcomed by environmentalists who hold the hope that it will help to tackle the…
