About the Webinar

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a landmark resolution 76/300 on 28 July 2022 on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. It follows the Human Rights Council resolution 48/13 of 08 October 2021. The EPL Webinar seeks to make sense of the global significance of the advent of this normative development that came soon after the Stockholm+50 Conference (2-3 June 20220). The webinar has been scheduled on 9 December 2022, the occasion of the World Human Rights Day (10 December). The discourse with a panel of eminent scholars and practitioners will provide an opportunity to: (i) explain the context and significance for rejoicing the UNGA’s (and the HRC) emphatic recognition of the human right to (clean, healthy and sustainable) environment for the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as well as “other rights and existing international law” (ii) normative value of the UNGA resolution for the universality of the environmental human rights (iii) impact of the human right to the sustainable environment on treaty-based international environmental and human rights obligations, observance of human rights of the individuals and inanimate objects as well as domestic policies, legislations and litigations.

The duration of the webinar will 1.5 hours. Register today as the space for this free webinar is limited. The recording will be available online afterwards.

Program

Welcome:
– Bharat H. Desai (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
– Marten Stavenga (IOS Press, Amsterdam)

Discussion Topic:
The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment

Speakers:
– Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University, USA
– Christina Voigt, University of Oslo, Norway
– Gunther Handl, Tulane Law School, USA
– Anupam Jha, University of Delhi, India
– Camena Guneratne, Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
– Claudia Ituarte-Lima, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden