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Human Rights and the Environment
This document is not meant to be exhaustive as these rights exist across numerous instruments and laws. The following rights are addressed in the document: The right to a... -
New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism
The book examines new frontiers in the implementation of constitutional, international, and regional rights-based approaches to promote environmental protection. The... -
Right to a Healthy Environment: Good Practices - Report of the Special...
The present report highlights good practices in the recognition and implementation of the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The term “good... -
How COVID-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective
This report provides a snapshot of some of the latest information available on how COVID-19 is affecting different aspects of public and private life, from economic and... -
International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2019. UNEP...
The compilation of papers in the present volume of the Review is based on lectures presented during the sixteenth University of Eastern Finland – United Nations Environment... -
An Assessment of Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to...
The objective of this assessment is to provide an overview of good practices that have emerged in relation to the implementation, protection and promotion of procedural access... -
Legislative Approaches to Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources...
This book seeks to explore how legislation, which is the backbone of governance and enforcement systems, accommodates and makes provision for the connections among economic (and... -
Marine Plastic Litter in East Asian Seas: Gender, Human Rights and Economic...
This report fills and identifies some of the existing information gaps by providing a synthesis of social and economic impacts and their gender and human rights dimensions.... -
An Analysis of Earth System Approach to the Global Pact for the Environment...
‘Earth system’ refers to Earth’s physical, chemical and biological processes interacting with one another. The system consists of the land, oceans, atmosphere and poles. It also... -
The Role of Human Dignity in Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals
'Sustainability’ – the idea that those living have a responsibility to leave for future generations an environment at least as livable as presently enjoyed – has witnessed... -
Emerging Issues in International Environmental Law: The Role of the United...
International environmental law is a relatively young and dynamic area of international law. Over the last 50 years, the environment has emerged as an important policy area that... -
4. Rights - Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report
After decades of rapid development of environment-related rights, government, companies, courts, and citizens in many places are still grappling with transforming these words on... -
Sustainable Sanitation Systems: Health, Environment and Governance...
This report aims to highlight some existing sanitation system alternatives (e.g. ecological sanitation) to conventional (centralised) sewer based sanitation systems; but also to... -
Integrating Environment in Post-conflict Needs Assessments: UNEP Guidance Note
the purpose of this guidance note is to i) Advise PCNA practitioners on how to ensure knowledge of environment issues is available and used during the PCNA process; ii)... -
Advancing Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability:...
Key contributions to the Congress. Speeches, articles, the Rio+20 Declaration on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability and other documents that encase the... -
UNEP Compendium on Human Rights and the Environment: Selected international...
The Compendium on human rights and the environment takes stock of the normative and jurisprudential developments in the field of human rights and the environment. It describes... -
Climate Change and Human Rights
This UNEP report sheds light on the human rights obligations of both governments and private actors in responding to climate change, including those relating to rights to... -
Practical Guidance for NHRIs on Addressing Human Rights and Climate Change
This Practical Guidance aims at offering something to the widest possible range of national human rights institutions. It is premised on the recognition that while consistency... -
Adopting a Human Rights-based Approach to Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A...
Human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) seek to analyse inequalities that lie at the heart of development problems, and redress discriminatory practices and unjust distributions... -
Human Rights and the Environment Rio+20: Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
This report seeks to make a substantive contribution to Rio+20 through an analysis of the interrelationship between human rights and the environment, both integral and...