Book contents
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Catalyst for Change
- 3 Learning from Constitutional Environmental Rights
- 4 The Right to a Satisfactory, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment in the African Regional Human Rights System
- 5 The European Court of Human Rights and International Environmental Law
- 6 Complexities and Uncertainties in Matters of Human Rights and the Environment
- 7 Reasoning Up
- 8 In Search of a Right to a Healthy Environment in International Law
- 9 A Human Right to a Healthy Environment?
- 10 Quality Control of the Right to a Healthy Environment
- 11 The Politics of Human Rights, the Environment, and Climate Change at the Human Rights Council
- 12 The Malé Formulation of the Overarching Environmental Human Right
- 13 Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime
- 14 The Right to a Healthy Environment and Climate Change
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - The Politics of Human Rights, the Environment, and Climate Change at the Human Rights Council
Toward a Universal Right to a Healthy Environment?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2018
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Book contents
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Catalyst for Change
- 3 Learning from Constitutional Environmental Rights
- 4 The Right to a Satisfactory, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment in the African Regional Human Rights System
- 5 The European Court of Human Rights and International Environmental Law
- 6 Complexities and Uncertainties in Matters of Human Rights and the Environment
- 7 Reasoning Up
- 8 In Search of a Right to a Healthy Environment in International Law
- 9 A Human Right to a Healthy Environment?
- 10 Quality Control of the Right to a Healthy Environment
- 11 The Politics of Human Rights, the Environment, and Climate Change at the Human Rights Council
- 12 The Malé Formulation of the Overarching Environmental Human Right
- 13 Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime
- 14 The Right to a Healthy Environment and Climate Change
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
International efforts to draw attention to, understand, clarify, and leverage the relationship between human rights and the environment have made remarkable progress since the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council in 2006. This effort was initially spearheaded by a Small Island Developing State, the Maldives, which from 2008 onwards tabled a series of resolutions on human rights and climate change and then, from 2011 onwards, on human rights and the environment. It was the unspoken hope of the Maldives that the norm-setting exercise initiated by these texts, already important in of itself, might also represent a first step towards open and informed intergovernmental reflections on the relative merits of declaring a new universal right to a clean and healthy environment. By late 2017, the work of the Maldives and allied States, as well as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and environment and supportive NGOs, had moved the international community to within touching distance of what would be the capstone of their decades-long endeavor: to elaborate, negotiate, and declare a new universal right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
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- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment , pp. 189 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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