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🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
July 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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A liveable future for young people & children is a right, not a luxury!

As CRIN's Niamh Purcell says, legal protection of the right to a healthy environment would prove the @coe.int is serious about youth & climate justice.

Ministers in Luxembourg, we count on your allyship!
May 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The climate, pollution & biodiversity crisis is harming our health, says Denis Fernando of @friends-earth.bsky.social

At next week's @coe.int meeting, Ministers must support a binding instrument legally protecting the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll - foundational to all human rights!
May 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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States must act now in a global environmental crisis.

Former UN Rapporteur @drdavidboyd.bsky.social urges @coe.int Ministers meeting in Luxembourg to start negotiating a binding instrument on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.

You've backed it at the UN, now make it real for Europe!
May 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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UN experts urge @coe.int Member States to negotiate an additional protocol to the European Convention to protect the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment.

No more delays for a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

@srenvironment.bsky.social @srtoxics.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Thank you, Aurora Floridia, for your support for the legal protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int!
@pace.coe.int members are once again showing leadership on this crucial issue.
Ministers must do the same at their May meeting - time to act NOW & recognise the right!
April 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment can be considered customary international law and, therefore, binding for States.
My contribution to the CIJ conversation on State obligations regarding climate change.
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Healthy Environment: A Human Right and Customary International Law
By Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial organ of the UN, is…
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February 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🔥 Switzerland must step up its climate game 🔥

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CMDH) rejected Switzerland’s claim that it has already fulfilled the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in the case of the KlimaSeniorinnen.
March 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Astrid Puentes Riaño has shared a great resource explaining why the right to a healthy environment should be binding under international law. We have also submitted an amicus curiae brief before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advocating for this crucial recognition.
The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment can be considered customary international law and, therefore, binding for States.

According to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a norm is a customary rule when it is “a practice generally accepted as law.”
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February 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A healthy environment is a prerequisite for the realization of all #HumanRights.

That is why it's critical that @coe.int Member States explicitly protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll within the European Convention of Human Rights.

A mini 🧵👇
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In 2024, the European Court of Human Rights found that Switzerland had failed to comply with its duties concerning climate change.

Now🇨🇭must adjust its current climate targets based on science & finally #ActOnClimate. Yet, our joint submission tells a different story.
January 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📢 Join us to “Get to Know the Right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the Council of Europe
Campaign: Updates, Insights, and Engagement” - we will discuss options ahead and ways to strengthen our collective voice.

📅 January 30
⏰ 1pm CET
📝 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM