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What is the Right to a Healthy Environment?

The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution is increasingly affecting the human rights of people across the globe. From climate change-induced drought that is precipitating hunger and famine around the world to pollution contaminating water sources everywhere, the global environmental crisis disproportionately impacts the world’s most marginalized communities.

In July 2022, the United Nations welcomed the recognition by the General Assembly that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. This recognition followed the UN Human Rights Council resolution 48/13, which acknowledged the right in October 2021. These resolutions represent a landmark achievement in mobilizing to protect the human right to a healthy environment and the interdependent and indivisible human rights which depend on it.

Recognition of the right to a healthy environment empowers all people with a critical tool to hold their governments, big polluters, and all those responsible for environmental harm to account. This Information Note aims to improve understanding of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment and why it matters. Further, the note traces the origins of this right, describes its key elements, and highlights the expected benefits of its recognition by the General Assembly. Importantly, the note outlines the roles of different stakeholders in advancing the realization of the right.

Doing so is imperative to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development because environmental degradation threatens the ability of countries to achieve sustainable and people-centered development. Ultimately, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) hope that this guide will be a tool to galvanize the momentum and action we urgently need to protect and restore our natural world. We commit to working with governments, international organizations, rights-holders, businesses, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment becomes a reality for all.

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Source:

https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-01/UNDP-UNEP-UNHCHR-What-is-the-Right-to-a-Healthy-Environment.pdf

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