In particular, we call on Council of Europe Member States to lead by example by:
✅ Sponsoring and securing the resolution
✅ Advancing a legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment
Read: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
@coe.int Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty urges UN states to back the UNGA resolution and act on the ICJ’s 2025 climate opinion:
🌱 Accountability
⚡ #PhaseOutFossilFuels
🗳️ Protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll
The law, the science & human rights are clear. Political will must follow.
In particular, we call on Council of Europe Member States to lead by example by:
✅ Sponsoring and securing the resolution
✅ Advancing a binding international instrument on the right to a healthy environment
Read: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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The law, the science & human rights all point the same way. Political will must follow.
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It is time for the @coe.int to take the next step & develop a binding instrument on the right to a #healthyenvironment.
The Council of Europe and the Environment must no longer lag behind in effectively protecting human rights and providing strong legal responses to the environmental crisis!
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We welcome this commitment and look forward to supporting @pace.coe.int's decades-long, continued leadership on protecting the right to a healthy environment in the @coe.int.
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Our Campaign congratulates Austrian Member of Parliament Petra Bayr, who has been elected as the new President of @pace.coe.int!
In her opening speech, she stressed the need for @coe.int advances on the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment.
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Today is a reminder that environmental justice is social justice. Let’s continue pushing for policies that safeguard these rights, amplify the voices of affected communities, and ensure that no one is left behind.
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Legally protecting the right to a healthy environment – as we call on the @coe.int to do – is not only a milestone in law. It is a call to action. A commitment to protect communities, support those most affected, and ensure that no one is left behind. ✊🌿
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Environmental harm is a human rights crisis. From heatwaves affecting people with chronic illnesses to pollution harming children’s health and climate disasters affecting frontline communities… all of them remind us that protecting our planet means protecting people. 👥
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Climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss are no longer distant threats. They are already shaping lives, health, and futures, especially for those who are most vulnerable.
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Today, on #HumanRightsDay, we are reminded that human rights are not abstract ideals, but lived realities.
And one whose protection stands urgent is the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌱
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@srenvironment.bsky.social @sumarslan.bsky.social @fidh-bhr.bsky.social @yeenetwork.bsky.social @ciel.org @michelforst.bsky.social
Our Campaign continues to mobilise across spaces to make sure the Council of Europe joins the rest of the world in legally protecting the right to a healthy environment! ✊
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🤝 We met with Member States and @coe.int representatives to discuss how to strengthen action on environment and human rights, and how to ensure the Council’s new Strategy on the Environment delivers meaningful change.
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💬 At another @coe.int side event, @ciel.org’s Camilla Pollera presented ways to foster a safe, enabling environment for environmental human rights defenders and integrate stronger protection standards into the Council’s environmental governance.
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🎤 At a @eesc.bsky.social side event, Samira Ben Ali discussed the benefits of the right to a healthy environment and made the case for its legal protection, also aligning with the International Court of Justice’s climate opinion.
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📣 We joined advocates from around the world on the streets of Belém for the Great People’s March – using our voices (and banners!) to call on the @coe.int to legally protect the right to a healthy environment as soon as possible.
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As @srenvironment.bsky.social put it perfectly in The Guardian: “[COP] Negotiations remain highly technical (...), but human rights & the right to a healthy environment mean putting people and nature at the centre.”
Our Campaign members adopted the same spirit!
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Our Campaign members showed up in force at #COP30 to advocate for the right to a healthy environment!
They made sure the message was heard loud and clear across the venue & outside.
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Our Campaign will keep collaborating to strengthen & monitor every aspect of the Strategy, including through involvement in a new Steering Committee on the Environment that will look closely at its implementation from next year!
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With the first state signatures coming in already, it is our hope – and call – that many more governments, whether @coe.int member States or observer ones, quickly join in supporting a long-overdue text to fight impunity & reinforce environmental protection.
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Congrats to those behind this text! Among its provisions:
⚖️ definition of a broad range of environmental crimes
⚖️ call for transversal policies & other measures to strengthen norm enforcement
⚖️ obligations to criminalise conduct that practically amounts to ecocide
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The Convention is one of the pillars supporting the new @coe Strategy on the Environment, whose development many Campaign members contributed to over the past few months.
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Our Campaign members were in attendance in Strasbourg last week to witness the opening for signature of the new @coe.int Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law!
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Environmental protection in Europe must be rooted in:
✊ #HumanRights,
🗣️ Democracy, and
🧑⚖️ The rule of law.
CIEL & @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social will be in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 continue to push for these principles to guide every step of the @coe.int’s work on the environment.
A timely event emphasizing why children and young people must be at the centre of environmental decision-making. 🌍
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🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 13:30–14:45
📍 Room H.207–209, Palais des Nations or online
🥗 Light lunch from 13:15
More info & registration: unece.org/environmenta...
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The event includes the launch of YEE’s new report, plus updates from the Council of Europe, with contributions from leading child-rights and environmental experts.
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We’ll explore how the RTHE can strengthen access to:
• information
• public participation
• justice — especially for children and young people.
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