A milestone resolution as UN declares access to a clean,
healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human
right.
This Thursday the United Nations adopted a milestone resolution
declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a
universal human right. The text recognizes that the impact of
climate change interferes with the enjoyment of this right. This
resolution gives additional legal tool and argument to climate
change lawsuits and will more likely be leveraged in upcoming
actions specially in countries where there is no climate change
laws. One of the most vulnerable regions to climate change,
South-East Asia, has already relied on human rights violation to
pursue successful climate lawsuits, more info at www.litigasia.org
