tech news ᳇ eicker.news#US #tech companies, including #Microsoft, successfully lobbied the #EU to keep #datacentreemissions data confidential. This secrecy provision, adopted almost verbatim from industry demands, hinders scrutiny of individual datacentre pollution and may violate EU #transparency rules and the #Aarhusconvention. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Commissioner for Human RightsConstructive meeting with Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #AarhusConvention. #Environmentaldefenders must be provided with a safe and enabling environment to carry out their vital work on promoting and protecting human rights relating to the environment.
Extinction Rebellion Norway"I fail to see how imposing prison sentences [...] and in addition ordering [...] to pay compensation of NOK 1.2 million [...] is either reasonable or proportionate"
Michel Forst, UN's special rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention criticizes Norwegian's highest court sentences against peaceful climate activists.
#Norge #Aktivisme #KlimaKrisa #Aarhusonvensjonen #Norway #Activism #ClimateChange #AarhusConvention
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Business, Human Rights & Environment @ FIDHRT: @ForstMichel Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience - Now available in French & Spanish
🇫🇷 👉https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/Aarhus_SR_EnvDef_Guidelines_Right_to_Peaceful_Environmental_Protest_Civil_Disobedience_FRA_0.pdf
🇪🇸 👉 https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/Aarhus_SR_EnvDef_Guidelines_Right_to_Peaceful_Environmental_Protest_Civil_Disobedience_SPA.pdf
🇬🇧👉 https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2025-10/Aarhus_SR_EnvDef_Guidelines_Right_to_Peaceful_Environmental_Protest_Civil_Disobedience_ENG_0.pdf
@UNECE #AarhusConvention #PeacefulProtest #CivilDisobedience
Joe NoonanProf. Ryall said it was necessary to “take a lot of heat out” of current discussions.
Greater resourcing of public authorities and the judiciary so they could do their job in a more timely way would help, she said.
#AccessToJustice #AarhusConvention #JudicialReview
#Oversight
Center for International Environmental LawThe Aarhus Convention #MOP8 negotiations just wrapped up in Geneva. The talks were arduous, but they succeeded in preserving its core mechanisms — a testament to just how vital and relevant the #AarhusConvention remains.
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EU EnvironmentRT by @EU_ENV: Hands up if you care about having
🖐️ access to information on the #environment
🖐️ your say to protect & shape it
🖐️ access to #justice
The🇺🇳#AarhusConvention puts all this into practice. Parties are legally bound to uphold these #humanrights & protect #EnvironmentalDefenders
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BellingenNSWReasons to support environmental defenders and citizens’ assemblies
Democracies depend on citizen engagement
“States must address the root causes of mobilisation” not the mobilisation itself. Indeed, tackling protesters and not oil producers is the democratic equivalent of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic."
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https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-to-support-environmental-defenders-227742
The repression and criminalisation of environmental protests
State repression of environmental protest and civil disobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy. Position Paper by Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention, 2024
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf
Public Participation
The Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs empower people with the rights to access information, participate in decision-making in environmental matters and to seek justice. They are the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy.
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https://unece.org/environmental-policy-1/public-participation
Re-imagining the Making of Climate Law and Policy in Citizens’ Assemblies
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnational-environmental-law/article/reimagining-the-making-of-climate-law-and-policy-in-citizens-assemblies/A591CF2EBFF3E60CF2BC4FE3655503E3
#activism #protests #HumanRights #PublicParticipation #democracy #governance #ethics #ClimateBreakdown #BiodiversityCrisis #Nature #AarhusConvention #rights #climate #CitizensAssemblies #CivilDisobedience
Matti Järvinen“The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights," noted Mr. Forst.
"The environmental emergency that we are collectively facing, and that scientists have been documenting for decades, cannot be addressed if those raising the alarm and demanding action are criminalized for it."
European Economic and Social CRT by @EU_EESC: #SDGs will not be achieved unless all actors are involved, incl. #civilsociety, @Tatiana_Molcean highlights at @EU_EESC, encouraging strong engagement at @UNECE Regional Forum on #SustainableDevelopment #RFSD2024 & continued use of 🇺🇳#AarhusConvention to protect our #environment
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/UNECE/status/1757795928277184853#m
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