The Environmental Policy and Law Journal and IOS Press are presenting a free webinar: The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a landmark resolution 76/300 on 28 July 2022 on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. It follows the Human Rights Council resolution 48/13 of 8 October 2021.

This EPL webinar seeks to make sense of the global significance of this advent of this normative development soon after the Stockholm+50 Conference (2–3 June 2022). The timing of the webinar coincides with the commencement of the high-level segment of the 77th UNGA in New York.

The discourse with a panel of eminent scholars and practitioners will provide an opportunity to:

(i) explain the context and significance for celebrating the UNGA’s (and the HRC) emphatic recognition of the human right to (clean, healthy, and sustainable) environment for the SDGs 2030 as well as “other rights and existing international law;”

(ii) normative value of the UNGA resolution for universality of the environmental human rights; and

(iii) impact of the human right to the environment on treaty-based international environmental obligations, and observance of human rights of individuals and inanimate objects, as well as domestic policies, legislations, and litigations.

For more information and to access the registration page for this virtual event, please click HERE.