Center for International Environmental LawToday at the #Portugal Pavilion 🇵🇹 at #COP30: powerful panel on protecting Environmental Human Rights Defenders. #EHRDs. Happening during Gender Action Day is a reminder that climate action only works when the people, particularly women, defending our planet can do so safely.
CIEL’s @camillapollera.bsky.social highlights how #EHRDs expose injustice, defend nature, and insist on accountability: “They stand up, even when doing so endangers their lives. The work of this initiative and the outcomes of COP30 must honour those defending our future every day.”
Europe is moving: the #Aarhus Convention created the first rapid-response mechanism for #EHRDs. The @coe.int is making a priority to address human rights and the environment through multiple approaches.