On 8 October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognised, for the first time, that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right — a concept rooted in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration.
- If recognised by all, the right would the first of its kind in more than 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
- The new resolution also underscores that the achievement of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment involves the right to participate in relevant decision-making processes; to have access to environmental information; and the ability to seek and secure an effective remedy.
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