1. Environment & ESCR

Collective Work

Climate Litigation: Members React to Verdicts by the European Court of Human Rights in KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho

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Bonn Climate Negotiations: A Never-Ending Story of Delays and Denials

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Inter-American Court of Human Rights: ESCR-Net Members Present Contributions to Clarify State Obligations in the Face of a Climate Emergency

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, members of the ESCR-Net will present two oral interventions before the Inter-American Court in Barbados. Members will address issues such as loss and damage and ask the Court to rule on climate reparations and on States' obligations to ensure human rights under...

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ESCR-Net contributions to the UN to address climate justice with a focus on loss and damage

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ESCR-Net on Corporate Accountability and Climate: Input for the 56th Session of the Human Rights Council in 2024

On 30 November 2023, ESCR-Net sent a collective submission in response to the call for inputs issued by the Special...

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COP28

COP28: Lost and Damaged, Swallowed by Corporate Capture and False Climate Solutions

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Addressing Loss and Damage: Our Call for Accountability and Justice

This advocacy briefing is grounded in the mutual exchange among ESCR-Net members, particularly facilitated through the Working Group on Environment and ESCR. Drawing on years of analysis focused on the realities of climate injustices and the intricate relationship between loss and damage and...

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COP27 Loss and Damage

Right to a Healthy Environment Global Coalition Wins UN Human Rights Prize

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Climate justice advocates demonstrating for the Right to a Healthy Environment

Towards Debt and Climate Justice: A Human Rights and Transitional-Justice Approach

By Dakota Anton and Malaika Nduko

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Increased Scrutiny of Climate Crisis Emerging before International Courts

The urgency of the climate crisis is reaching courts all around the world, including international tribunals, and ESCR-Net members are deeply engaged.

Climate litigation is pending or soon expected in all three regional human rights systems, in addition to the International Court of...

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Hand-made poster on cardboard-box paper that reads: "Climate Justice Now!" being held up by a hand.

Collective Advocacy on Biodiversity and Land Rights- COP 15 outcomes

On 19 December 2022, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, held in Montreal, ended with the adoption of the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), a landmark agreement on measures considered critical to address the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restore natural ecosystems.

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Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment

Amidst a triple planetary crisis (climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss) with existential stakes and devastating impacts for the human rights of billions of people across regions, the universal recognition in 2022 of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is...

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