{"id":18391,"date":"2025-07-08T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/staging\/?p=18385"},"modified":"2025-07-19T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:30:03","slug":"advisory-opinion-32-of-2025-climate-emergency-and-human-rights-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/?p=18391","title":{"rendered":"Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025: Climate Emergency and Human Rights. What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About the event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Background & Rationale<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On 3 July, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025 on the climate emergency and human rights. This decision marks a significant milestone in the development of international law. The IACtHR recognises the importance of a systemic and intersectional approach that connects climate action with the protection of ecosystems, biodiversity, and the rights of environmental and human rights defenders.
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This Advisory Opinion, requested by Chile and Colombia, advances a comprehensive normative framework that builds on, and interacts with, earlier jurisprudence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) as well as the ongoing advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Advisory Opinions are progressing the agenda on climate action more noticeably than contentious proceedings. It is important to reflect on how regional and national institutions \u2013 including courts, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and civil society \u2013 can support the agenda to advance climate justice and Earth stewardship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conveners<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE<\/u><\/a>) is organizing this round table, supported by the following partners:  The Biodiversa + Defend Bio project, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI<\/u><\/a>), the ERC Curiae Virides project (Brussels School of Governance \u2013 Vrije Universiteit Brussel), University of the West Indies<\/u><\/a>, Cave Hill (Barbados), Universidad del\u202fRosario<\/u><\/a> (Colombia), SEVEN<\/u><\/a> (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The roundtable’s objective is to provide a forum for reflection on the various themes that have emerged in the wake of the adoption of AO 32 of 2025. Some of these themes are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n