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Litigation concerning climate change mitigation and adaptation increasingly invokes human rights. The databases curated by the Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment  show a rising tide of rights-based climate change cases all over the world, ‘pushing the boundaries’ of human rights law…

by Victoria Lichet with assistance from Natalia Urzola, Maria Antonia Tigre & Dina Lupin In June 2021, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the CRC) decided to create a General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change (the General Comment). The goal of the…

by Dr Felix Nana Kofi Ofori, REACT Humanitarian Network, Oxford, UK Like most developing countries, Ghana is internally engaging in development projects to provide sustainable economic, social, political and cultural systems, which address the aspirations of its citizenry. The UN General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of December 14, 1962-Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources- recognises the…

2022 Summer/Winter School: Water from Oceans to Taps The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will host their second annual online School on Environmental and Human Rights from 20-24 June 2022. This year the Summer/Winter School will focus on the theme Water – from oceans to…

by Pedro Cisterna Gaete* At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries committed to mobilising 100 billion dollars annually by 2020 for finance mitigation and adaptation actions. Regrettably, developed countries did not comply with this pledge, reaching only 79.6 billion dollars by 2019 with no possibilities to achieve the 2020 pledge. It is in the…