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Blog Posts:
- Fear of the Light: Dimming Accountability Under the Aarhus
- Legal Roundtable: Adjudicating Climate Disputes in a New Era – Implementation and Conciliation
- Concept Note, ILA Caribbean Branch & The UWI Cave Hill With Partners, Webinars On The Advisory Opinions
- Environmental Justice in dark times: A Student Blog Symposium
- Fukushima’s Nuclear Wastewater Discharge: The Law and Environmental Justice Dilemma
- When Sugar Burns, Black Snow Falls: Legal Complicity and Environmental Racism in Florida’s Sugarcane Industry.
- Ecocide in Gaza: An Environmental Justice Struggle
- Swimming Against the Tide: An Anglerfish and Ocean Injustice
- Denial is a River in Egypt: Rethinking River Ownership in East Africa and Across the Globe.
- Upcoming event (webinar): Climate Justice at the ICJ: Human Rights Implications of the Advisory Opinion
- Climate Justice at the ICJ: Human Rights Implications of the Advisory Opinion
- Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025: Climate Emergency and Human Rights. What’s Next?
- Linking the Principles of Restorative Justice and Procedural Environmental Rights
- How the Aarhus and Escazú Agreements Could be Used in Developing the CEPA Framework for the Right to a Healthy Environment
- Reflections on the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Citizen Submission Process
- Supporting Procedural Environmental Human Rights in Canada: a role for the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines?
- Saving the Green Deal: A Climate Justice and Human Rights Imperative
- The Supreme Court of Kenya Advances Jurisprudence on Access to Effective Remedies for Victims of Business-Related Environmental Human Rights Violations
- “A Horror Story” – How the Law Simultaneously Addresses and Facilitates Environmental Racism in ‘Cancer Alley’
- Tainted Tides: Caitlin Edwards’ Struggle Against Environmental Injustice
- The Flint Water Crisis: A Real American Horror Story
- Beneath the Surface: The Plight of Bouazar’s Cobalt Miners
- Shadows over the Arctic: Legal Battles for Indigenous Environmental Justice in Norway
- Environmental Justice and the Law – A Student Blog Symposium
- Dearth of Protections for Earth Protectors: Lessons from Aarhus on Canada’s Protection of Indigenous and Environmental Human Rights Defenders
- Lessons from the Aarhus Compliance Committee on Legal Costs and Access to Environmental Justice
- How Canada’s Federal and Provincial Governments Collaborate Against the Public Right to Access Environmental Information
- Environmental Harm, Disability, and the Importance of Procedural Environmental Rights
- Overview of the Function of the Aarhus Convention and Potential Lessons for the Canadian Context
- Chevron Overruled: A Devastating Blow to the Environmental Protection Agency
- Slouching towards Strasbourg? Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe
- Issues and Opportunities for AI, The Environment, and Human Rights
- “An embarrassing day for the government” – the UK’s Climate Plan a Failure, says the High Court
- Climate Change Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights: A New Dawn
- Decarbonization of International Shipping: Importance of Alternative ‘Green’ Fuels
- Landmark Court Decision on Right to a Healthy Environment: La Oroya v Peru
- Early Career Researchers in viewing the Kaleidoscope of Solidarity Rights for Climate Justice: Some Take-aways from COP28
- Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why it matters
- La contribución del Acuerdo de Escazú a la justicia ambiental en América Latina: Una exploración empírica a través de la litigación climática
- The Future of Future Generations: Reflections from the Republic of Vanuatu and European Parliament Conference
- Gender in Climate Litigation in Latin America: Epistemic Justice Through a Feminist Lens
- Dedication: Professor Saleemul Huq
- Forests in courts: The new wave of litigation concerning the LULUCF sector in Europe
- The Australian Referendum: a First Nations Voice to Parliament
- Launch of the online version of the Strasbourg Principles of International Environmental Human Rights Law
- Managerialism versus Climate Justice in financing Loss and Damage
- Blue bonds: Shifting the responsibility innovatively
- Who benefits from mobilising private sector investment for climate transition?
- What does green mean in green microfinance?
- Green Finance under the Escazu Agreement
- Who decides what is ‘green’ enough to be ‘green’?
- The narrow allure of bridging funding gaps with blended finance
- Debt and green transition: An Introduction
- Reflecting on COP 27 & the Loss and Damage Fund through the Indian lens
- Culture- vs Health-focused Arguments in Climate Change Litigation: Any Implications for Rights-based Litigation in Europe?
- Access to justice and human rights approaches to procedural environmental rights: lessons from and for Canada – A Call for Blog Posts and Bibliography Submissions
- Workshop on “Global climate change litigation and the rise of international adjudication” – 30 June 2023
- Watch the recording – Virtual Book Launch of Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
- Can the Right to A Healthy Environment Remedy the Chronic TSD Enforcement Problem?
- Loss and Damage Funding and Vanuatu’s ICJ Initiative: Parallel Processes Relevant to Climate Obligations under International Law
- 2022: The GNHRE’s year in review and exciting developments in 2023!
- Exploring “Enlightened Ecosystem Zones:” A new collaborative research activity for university students
- Innovating Open Access Legal Education: The First Annual Green Rights & Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy
- The UNHRC’s Torres Strait Islands decision: A Major Advance, and a Roadmap for the Future
- Evolutions of the Right to a Healthy Environment Part 2: Political Dimensions of International Environmental Governance
- Radiography of an Ecological Constitution: the Chilean Constitutional draft
- Evolutions of the Right to a Healthy Environment Part 1: Implications for Vulnerable Communities
- Three Cheers for Evolving New Rights: A Healthy Environment, International Solidarity, and Climate Refugee Protection
- The Right to a Healthy Environment and Physical and Mental Health
- Symposium on the United Nations General Assembly’s Consideration of the Right to a Healthy Environment: call for blog posts
- The campaign to support the recognition of the right to a healthy environment by the United Nations General Assembly
- International Conference on Rights Of Nature For Sustainable Development
- Memories from the launch of the GNHRE Implementing Principles for The Escazú Agreement
- Historic inquiry holds the Carbon Majors accountable for the impacts of climate change in the Philippines
- Mapping human rights-based climate litigation in Canada
- Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation: A Latin American Cartography
- Deadly Air: A case in defence of the Right to Breathe Clean Air!
- The energy transition is part of the feminist and a human rights agenda
- Climate adaptation, vulnerability and rights-based litigation: broadening the scope of climate litigation using political ecology and insights from India
- Introducing the Environmental Rights Review and our first Call for Papers
- Launch of The GNHRE Implementing Principles for The Escazú Agreement: Official side-event of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Escazú Agreement
- European Climate Litigation: A Tale of Two Courts
- Legal standards for judging States’ mitigation efforts
- Mapping the whole of the moon: The rich landscape of rights-based litigation in the climate emergency
- GNHRE Blog post series: Rights-based Climate Change Litigation – Global and Regional Perspectives
- GNHRE co-hosts the thematic consultation to inform the General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change
- Polluting Away the People’s Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment in Ghana
- GNHRE-UNEP School for Human Rights and the Environment
- COP26: Climate Finance and Human Rights – a story of insufficient ambition
- Implementing the Escazú Agreement: towards GNHRE’s guiding principles
- 2021: GNHRE’s year in review and exciting developments in 2022!
- COP26: reflections on human rights at the ocean-climate nexus
- GNHRE Blog Series: Human Rights at COP26
- Virtual Book Launch— The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future
- Virtual Book Launch – Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change
- The UNHRC recognizes the right to a healthy environment and appoints a new Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change. What does it all mean?*
- UNHRC Resolution recognising a Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- Virtual Book Launch: Droit constitutionnel de l’environnement
- No One-Size-Fits-All: Variability as a Substantive Basis for the Equitable and Fair Implementation of the Escazú Agreement
- The Escazú Agreement and the Caribbean Region
