Center for International Environmental LawMar 9
🌍⚖️ Today, @[email protected] Human Rights Commissioner Michael O'Flaherty called for urgent rights-based climate action and urged UN Member States to support the upcoming #UN General Assembly resolution to operationalise the 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change. 👉 www.coe.int/en/web/commi... A 🧵

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🇺🇳 The UNGA resolution — led by 🇻🇺 Vanuatu & a diverse group of States — represents an important step toward translating the legal guidance of the world’s highest court into concrete climate action: strengthening accountability & advancing climate reparations & #PhaseOutFossilFuels.
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🔍 Let’s dive in: A growing body of legal guidance — including the landmark #KlimaSeniorinnen judgment of the European Court of Human Rights and the ICJ’s 2025 Advisory Opinion — confirms that States have clear obligations under international law to address the #HumanRights impacts of climate change.
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Delivering on these obligations means: 🌡️ Taking effective action to limit global warming to 1.5°C 🏭 Advancing a just transition away from fossil fuels ⚖️ Providing meaningful remedies and reparations for climate harms 🌱 Protecting & enforcing the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.
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Climate protection, human rights, democracy & the rule of law are not separate agendas; they are one shared mission. ⏳As UN member States prepare to vote on the UNGA resolution, the message is clear: the law, the science & human rights all point in the same direction. What we need is political will.
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For European Member States, in particular, this means: 🗳️ Leading by example by sponsoring and securing the adoption of this resolution. ⚖️ Developing a binding instrument on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Climate action and accountabil...
Climate action and accountability for survival

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