Time and Date: 12 September 2023 16:00-17:30 CET
DESCRIPTION
The panel will explore the role of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the transition. The speakers will reflect on the practice concerning the implementation of this right in different regions. The speakers will provide insights from regional rights systems that formally recognise the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, as well as from regions where the explicit recognition of this right is under debate.
PANELISTS
David Boyd – ‘The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the transition at the UN’
Judge Veronica Gomez (IACTHR) – ‘Perspectives from the Inter-American system’
Natalya Kobylarz (COE) – ‘Perspectives from European system’
Ademola O Jegede (Ismail Mahomed Centre for Human and Peoples’ Rights, University of Venda, South Africa) – ‘Perspectives from African system’
MODERATOR: Annalisa Savaresi (GNHRE)
SUGGESTED READINGS
John H Knox, ‘Introduction to Symposium on UN Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment’ (2023) 117 162
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-internationallaw/article/introduction-to-symposium-on-un-recognition-of-the-human-right-to-ahealthy-environment/45AC44373C646DD3DF7A2572E47E1E1D
Anna Guzman and Stephanie Yu ‘Evolutions of the Right to a Healthy Environment Part 2: Political Dimensions of International Environmental Governance – GNHRE’ (6 September 2022) https://gnhre.org/?p=15639
Annalisa Savaresi, ‘The UN HRC Recognizes the Right to a Healthy Environment and Appoints a New Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change. What Does It All Mean?’ (EJIL: Talk!, 12 October 2021) https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-un-hrcrecognizes-the-right-to-a-healthy-environment-and-appoints-a-new-specialrapporteur-on-human-rights-and-climate-change-what-does-it-all-mean/