WILDLIFE POPULATIONS PLUMMET BY 69% according to new Living Planet Report.
I was honoured to contribute an essay to the report.
The topic: surprise! The right to a healthy environment!!
Read it all here ...
livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

Businesses are causing massive environmental damage across the world, resulting in widespread human rights violations.
Part of the solution is strong laws requiring human rights and environmental due diligence, as per a brief I wrote with Stephanie Keene
bit.ly/3CQKakO

Trackless electric trams ... a great mobility innovation!

Felicitaciones Colombia por la ratificación del Acuerdo de Escazú.
Más vale tarde que nunca... y ahora los retos de la implementación.
eltiempo.com/politica/congr…

No group has a greater stake in the future of our ailing planet than children and youth.
It's vital to empower young people by creating institutions and processes enabling them to speak, be heard, and influence decisions that will affect their rights and their future.
Ireland!!

Un caso ambiental super importante está ocurriendo ahora mismo en la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.
Comunidad de La Oroya contra Perú
Décadas de contaminación por la fundición de plomo
Impacto devastador en la salud y los derechos de los niños
youtube.com/watch?v=7J0jXW…

One of the most important environmental cases in the history of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is happening right now.
Community of La Oroya v Peru
Decades of immense pollution from lead smelter
Devastating impact on children's health and rights
youtube.com/watch?v=7J0jXW…

More creative and badly needed ideas for climate finance from Avinash Persaud, Barbados’ Special Envoy for Climate Finance
justmoney.org/a-manifesto-fo…

The UK seems to have lost its marbles! Blocking solar in the midst of both a climate emergency and an energy crisis?
Daft!
theguardian.com/environment/20…

A fossil fuel based food system is just as problematic for human rights and the environment as a fossil fuel based energy system.
We need to change the systems!

Latest newsletter from the mandate can be read here:
srenvironment.org/newsletter/new…

I just completed back to back country missions to Portugal and Slovenia.
These nations are pioneers in recognizing and championing the right to a healthy environment
I learned about good practices and big challenges
Port.
ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
Slov.
bit.ly/3fMpFNp

Students should not be arrested for participating in peaceful protests.
They have the rights of freedom of expression and association.
I urge Uganda to release the jailed students immediately!

Has anyone seen this Chevron commercial?

Barbados PM is such a powerful voice for a quantum leap in climate and development finance.
Essential changes to the international financial architecture.
Mia Mottley builds global coalition to make financial system fit for climate action climatechangenews.com/2022/09/23/mia… via Climate Home News

Devastating new BBC documentary about a sacrifice zone in Iraq created by big oil with complicity of the government.
Flaring gas right beside communities is wasteful, unethical and an abuse of human rights! bbc.com/news/science-e…

The leaking Nord Stream 2 pipeline is spewing thousands of tonnes of methane, a potent GHG gas, into the atmosphere, worsening the climate crisis.
How many more reasons do we need to treat the climate emergency with unprecedented urgency?
End fossil fuel use asap!

This should be an important stepping stone towards the long awaited Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human rights, recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, as supported by all CoE States in UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/76/300