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Fundamental right and climate agenda

General information

What are environmental rights?

Access to a healthy environment, declared a human right by UN rights council

Protecting the environment using human rights law

The Covid-19 crisis has not made the climate emergency go away

All eyes turn to the European Court of Human Rights to assess future of rights-based climate litigation

The first ten years of the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive – an essential tool for protecting our health

A universal right to a healthy environment

Individual right to clean and healthy air in the EU

Water protection and management

Water and sanitation are a human right! Water is a public good, not a commodity!

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Supporting Environmental Democracy and the Aarhus Convention

The EU & the Aarhus Convention: in the EU Member States, in the Community Institutions and Bodies

IUCN World Declaration on the Environmental Rule of Law

Environmental Rule of Law

Varia : selected case-law and academic publications OA

  1. E. Scotford, Environmental Rights and Principles in the EU Context: Investigating Article 37 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  2. J. van Zeben, The Role of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Climate Litigation
  3. L. Kotzé, Earth system law: Exploring new frontiers in legal science

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