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Universal recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment: Presentation of the UN General Assembly Resolution and its implications for public policy

Sustainable development and human settlements
29 August 2022|Event

The event aims to present and analyse the importance of the Resolution A/RES/76/300 adopted last 28 July by the United Nations General Assembly on "The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment", presented by Costa Rica, Slovenia, Maldives, Morocco, and Switzerland, with the support of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This text recognises, for the first time worldwide, a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a Human Right. The event will address how this decision of the General Assembly can contribute to catalyse the adoption and effective implementation of stronger and more homogeneous global environmental regulations and, above all, actions in favour of our planet.

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Environment
Universal recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

29 Aug 2022

  • Program

    16:30 to 18:30
    Room Celso Furtado - CEPAL

    PROGRAM

    16:30

    Coffe

     

    16:45-17:15

     

    Welcome and introduction

    (10 min)

     

    Constance Nalegach,

    Ministry of the Environment of Chile

     

    Kenza EL Ghali

    Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Chile

     

    José Luis Samaniego, Director of the  Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

     

     

    Introductory video

    The protection of the human right to a healthy environment and other human rights through the environmental policy (5 min)

     

    Maisa Rojas

    Minister of the Environment, Chile

     

    The road towards the recognition of the human right to a healthy environment in the UN and its implications for the future (15 min)

    John Knox, Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University School of Law and First UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the environment

     

    PANEL

    Moderator: Carlos de Miguel, ECLAC

     

     

     

    17:15-18:30

     

    The diplomatic process for the recognition of the human right to a healthy, clean and sustainable environment

    (5 min)

    Adriana Murillo Ruin

    Ambassador of Costa Rica in Chile 

     

     

     

     

    The right to a healthy environment from the human rights approach (5 min)

    Xavier Mena, Regional Representative for South America of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 

     

     

     

    The human right to a healthy environment in comparative legislation and the Escazu Agreement

    (5 min)

    José Luis Samaniego

    Director of the Sustainable and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

     

     

     

     

    Why the UN Resolution is important for people?

    (5 min)

    Katta Alonso, Mujeres de Zona de Sacrificio en Resistencia Comunas de Quintero y Puchuncaví

     

     

     

     

    Chile in the agenda of human rights ante environmental protection at the international level (5 min)

    Tomás Pascual Ricke

    Human Rights Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile

     

     

    Q & A

    (30 min)

     

     

     

    Conclusions

    (15 min)

     

     

    Ximena Fuentes

    Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Chile

     

    Markus Dutly

    Ambassador of Switzerland in Chile

     

     

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