Category: Community
Implementing the Escazú Agreement: towards GNHRE’s guiding principles
By Felix le Roux, Pablo Serra-Palao & Natalia Urzola The Escazú Agreement (the Agreement) is groundbreaking in myriad ways. It is the first regional agreement for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that explicitly advances the intersection of human rights and environmental protection. With a clear set of rules, principles, and instruments, the Agreement aims…
2021: GNHRE’s year in review and exciting developments in 2022!
In the last few years, the GNHRE has grown enormously, in the reach and impact of both our membership and our programs. Our membership has grown in every part of the world, and we now count among our 400+ members, scholars, activists, advocates, environmental rights defenders, diplomats, policy makers, and many others. In 2020, in…
COP26: reflections on human rights at the ocean-climate nexus
by Prof Elisa Morgera (Director of the One Ocean Hub) and Mitchell Lennan (PhD researcher at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance / One Ocean Hub) After COP25 in Madrid in 2019 was labelled the “Blue COP”, expectations were high for COP26 to embed the ocean into future climate-related action at all levels.…
GNHRE Blog Series: Human Rights at COP26
By Annalisa Savaresi The recently concluded 26th Conference of the Parties (aka COP26) to the climate treaties held between 31 October and 13 November 2021 in Glasgow was the first such meeting to be held in the aftermath of the COVID 19 pandemic. It was also the largest COP ever, with nearly 40,000 registered delegates.…
Virtual Book Launch— The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future
On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 1pm EST/6pm GMT/7pm CET/8pm CAT, Craig Kauffman and Pamela Martin will discuss their new book, The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future, with discussant Professor James May. Please register in advance for the book launch here. About the Book: With the window of opportunity…
