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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In our new blog, @sumarslan.bsky.social (Child Rights International Network) and Małgorzata Kwiędacz-Palosz (@clientearth.bsky.social) argue for a binding @coe.int treaty on the right to a healthy environment. 2/5

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For decades, the European Court of Human Rights has helped protect people from pollution, environmental degradation and climate harms. Yet, environmental protection under the Convention remains indirect and incomplete. 1/5

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UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe) @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're so excited to welcome Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to a Healthy Environment, to Amsterdam! We look forward to working with her during her year in residence with SEVEN- University of Amsterdam and exploring new ways to protect our planet and its inhabitants.

A picture of the team from SEVEN, UCLA Law's Promise (Europe) and UN Special Rapporteur Astrid Puentes Riaño at the Amsterdam Law Hub.

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Sumeyra Arslan @sumarslan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🍃The need for the legal protection of the right to a healthy environment at the Council of Europe has never been this evident! The time is now✊

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Alain Berset @alain-berset.coe.int · 17/07/2026

Profondément préoccupé par les incendies dévastateurs en France qui ont ravagé la forêt de Fontainebleau, une réserve de biosphère. Le changement climatique est une réalité qui transforme notre continent, avec des conséquences humaines et écologiques immenses. 🧵1/2

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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · 25/06/2026

On the margins of #UNECE Aarhus #WGP30 & #HRC62, a rally calling for advancing legal recognition of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll across Europe through a binding treaty took place at Place des Nations, underscoring that env't protection is a fundamental human right.

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 05/06/2026

At the first European Forum on Environmental #HumanRights Defenders, I joined the call for a Council of Europe legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment. Nothing less will match the urgency of the moment. Read my speech ⬇️ #WorldEnvironmentDay #NowForClimate #ClimateAction

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The urgency of a Council of Europe legal instrument on the right to a healthy environment - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 05/06/2026

Inspired by the environmental #humanrights defenders and civil society actors I met at the first European Forum on #EHRDs. Their courage in exposing environmental harm offers hope for our planet. States have an obligation to ensure they can work freely and safely.

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As the 1st European Forum on Environmental Human Rights Defenders begins, what should States do to effectively protect the right to a healthy environment across Europe? Our Campaign wanted to discuss the benefits of a @coe.int legally binding instrument for rightsholders & advocates!

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We join the @commissionerhr.coe.int in welcoming the UN General Assembly resolution endorsing the International Court of Justice’s climate advisory opinion. The ICJ clearly stated the right to a healthy environment is a precondition for all human rights. 1/3

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🔥 the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly is about to be called upon to #VoteYesForClimateJustice as it considers an important resolution tabled by 🇻🇺 Vanuatu (and others) to welcome and build upon the historic #ClimateJustice ruling by the 🌐 ⚖️ International Court of Justice! 🧵⬇️ follow proceedings in thread below

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We are grateful to @commissionerhr.coe.int & @pace.coe.int for prioritising the protection of the right to a healthy environment in their work. Its legal recognition through a binding instrument is the key step to ensure @coe.int aligns with the ICJ's advisory opinion.

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

On 24–25 March, our Campaign joined the first meeting of the @coe.int Steering Committee on the Environment (CDENV) in Strasbourg (and online), feeding into the implementation of the Environment Strategy. 1/5

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Great environment news from Chisinau, where the @coe.int recently held its High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter! 1️⃣ France officially notified the @coe.int of the extension of the applicability of the European Social Charter to its overseas territories and communities 1/6

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Our Campaign welcomes that momentum is building among member States of the @coe.int to make concrete progress towards negotiations of a binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment! 1/3

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@coe.int Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty urges UN states to back the UNGA resolution and act on the ICJ’s 2025 climate opinion: 🌱 Accountability ⚡ #PhaseOutFossilFuels 🗳️ Protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll The law, the science & human rights are clear. Political will must follow.

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: hearings continue at 🧑‍⚖️ Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against 🛢️TotalEnergies 🔍 Focus today: expert hearings & civil liability 🧵 Live coverage in English below 👇 🇫🇷 See also live coverage in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social

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Notre Affaire à Tous @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

⚖️ L’audience dans le procès contre TotalEnergies pour manquement à ses obligations climatiques a commencé ! Le tribunal pourrait contraindre les entreprises les plus polluantes à répondre de leur impact sur le climat et à sortir des énergies fossiles. Suivez cette première journée en live 🧵

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

⚖️ 🌐 🛢️ #ClimateLitigation update: court hearings continue at Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against TotalEnergies. The hearing continues, with focus on the review of Total's vigilance plan & of injunctions sought by NGOs & municipalities. 🧵 Live coverage in thread 👇

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🔥 ⚖️ #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, 🇫🇷 🧑‍⚖️ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability. 📝 🧵 Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court ⬇️

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Our Campaign members showed up in force at #COP30 to advocate for the right to a healthy environment! They made sure the message was heard loud and clear across the venue & outside. 1/7

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 08/12/2025

🌍✨ We are at UNEA 7! #𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗔𝟳 is officially underway in Nairobi – HQ of @unep.org – and with our partners we’re rolling up our sleeves for a week of key negotiations and collaboration.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"

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European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International

Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

An additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights is crucial to protect all human rights from environmental degradation. We cannot wait any longer for the @coe.int to align with the growing international momentum! 2/3

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Two years after the @coe.int pledged action on human rights & the environment, it’s time to move past political statements. At our @pace.coe.int side event, experts & leaders made it clear: Europe must start negotiations to legally protect the right to a healthy environment! 1/3

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

At the @pace.coe.int session, MP @saskiakluit.bsky.social asked the @coe.int Secretary General what he will be doing in the near future to promote the right to a healthy environment. We need an additional protocol NOW to legally protect the right & protect all other rights from environmental crisis!

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Saskia Kluit @saskiakluit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Tweede dag van de @pace.coe.int plenaire sessie. Hier stel ik de vraag wat de secretaris-generaal van @coe.int komende tijd zal doen voor het recht op een schone en gezonde leefomgeving. Zijn antwoord was dat klimaatverandering een urgente crisis is en in de Reyckyavick declaratie opgenomen. 1/

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Join our Campaign & MP Aurora Floridia for a @pace.coe.int side event on why the @coe.int's protection of the right to a healthy environment matters! 🎤 Hear from @srenvironment.bsky.social @duycks.bsky.social ocial @saskiakluit.bsky.social it.bsky.social @sumarslan.bsky.social & more! 1/2

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Last June, Italian MP & @pace.coe.int member Aurora Floridia asked a critical question to the @coe.int Committee of Ministers: ❓Will European leaders finally launch the drafting of a legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment? 1/5

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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary. fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

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Colombia Announces 1st International Phase-Out Conference — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

Colombia has announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The landmark conference will provide a global platform for countries to coop...

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 happening now: #ClimateLitigation court hearing in Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭, in 𝐴𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑣. 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑐𝑖𝑚. This civil law case seeks to hold one of the largest carbon major accountable for climate harms. 🧵 live reporting from the Court house, with summary of legal arguments and key elements of context👇

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Bieke Machiels 💙🔻 @bieke.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Tussen 240.000 en 300.000 doden in Gaza sinds 7 okt 2023. De rode lijn is al zover overschreden dat ze volledig uit het zicht verdwenen is. En onze regering is, door haar inactie en geneuzel, medeplichtig www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buite...

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Experts twijfelen aan cijfers: 'Dodental Gaza niet overdreven, maar juist onderschat'

Het werkelijke dodental in Gaza als gevolg van de oorlog tussen Israël en Hamas 'ligt veel hoger dan gerapporteerd'. Dat zeggen onderzoekers in een publicatie in het onafhankelijke medisch-wetenschapp...

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

⚠ Brazil | The environmental licensing bill already approved by both Brazilian chambers and awaiting presidential approval is contrary to recent decisions expressed in advisory opinions on the climate emergency by the IDH Court and the ICJ. PR: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Landmark ruling in Belgium! Today, a Brussels court ruled that the Flemish government must block transit to Israel of all goods that can be used in military equipment, citing Israel's breaches of int'l law. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide.

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Sumeyra Arslan @sumarslan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

📢New piece alert! Read Child's Rights International Network's take on #SB62 and what must happen at #COP30 on JTWP and NDCs, using the Advisory Opinion of the IACtHR and the right to a healthy environment as a normative background for the negotiations: home.crin.org/readlistenwa...

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After three decades of climate talks, can COP30 bring the change we need? — CRIN

Before COP30 in November, CRIN is critically reviewing the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of States: two initiatives aimed at enhancing the im...

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Uhm yes, LNG is bad for the climate: Requires specially equipped trucks or cargo ships ➕ Releases huge quantities of methane and carbon dioxide during extraction, processing, transportation and storage ➕ Has a 67% larger carbon footprint than pipeline gas 🟰 big environmental impact 1/2

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EU now imports more LNG than pipeline gas: Is it bad for the climate?

The EU is ramping up LNG imports to make up for the lack of Russian pipeline gas reaching the bloc. What's the environmental and financial cost? #EuropeInMotion

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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · 30/06/2025

The #GENetwork is at the annual panel discussion on the adverse impacts of #ClimateChange on #HumanRights, focusing this year on facilitating just transitions that are fair, inclusive and rights-based. ▶️ tiny.cc/HRC59Environ... 📹 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...

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PACE @pace.coe.int · 24/06/2025

Watch live now: a debate on the European Court of Human Rights, with the participation of its President: youtube.com/watch?v=GWN5... MPs from the 46 @coe.int nations bound by the #ECHR react to the recent call by nine prime ministers for reflection on the Court's migration rulings.

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PACE summer session 2025 – 21st sitting – 24 June

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE. 🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms. 🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇

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Fossielvrij NL @fossielvrijnl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Samen met 100.000 anderen trokken wij gisteren een rode lijn. In Den Haag én tijdens het klimaatweekend. Wij eisen dat onze regering gaat staan voor het internationaal recht en dat ze luistert naar de meerderheid van NL. Stop de genocide en stop met het wegkijken van deze gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden.

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Celebrating the @coe.int foundation 76th Anniversary should be honored by starting the negotiations for a binding protocol to protect the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all Europeans. #HealthyEnvironment

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The @coe.int is discussing whether to legally recognise the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. At a Dutch Parliament debate next week, MPs can demand a strong position from the government - one standing for unity among European countries when protecting the environment!

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Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Next week, the Dutch Parliament will hold a debate on the recognition of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int! 🇳🇱 MPs, encourage the Government to demand a protocol to the European Convention to strengthen human rights protection at home! healthyenvironmenteurope.com

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 19/03/2025

🚨BREAKING🚨 The trial verdict is in. A jury in the Morton County courthouse found Greenpeace International and two Greenpeace entities in the United States liable for over US$ 660 million combined in Energy Transfer’s meritless SLAPP lawsuit. #WeWillNotBeSilenced

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Max van Geuns @maxvangeuns.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Een kritisch rapport over de milieueffecten van Schiphol is aangepast onder druk van de luchthaven. Termen als „onjuist” en „ten onrechte” werden veranderd in „deels niet consistent” en „discutabel”. Het gaat om een milieustudie voor Schiphol voor een nieuwe spoedwet, die meer vluchten toelaat.

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Onafhankelijk milieurapport afgezwakt na druk door Schiphol

Milieustudie: De commissie Milieueffectrapportage was kritisch over een milieustudie voor Schiphol. Toch vormt die studie de basis voor een spoedwet die de luchthaven meer vluchten toestaat.

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