The UN's Top Human Rights Panel Votes to Recognize Right to a Clean and Sustainable Environment [insideclimatenews.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 10/12/214:00 AM

By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News, October 7, 2021

The United Nations’ top human rights body voted Friday to adopt a resolution recognizing the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

The resolution passed with 43 votes in favor while China, India, Japan and Russia abstained from voting. The United States is not a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council and did not participate in the vote.

The approval, while not legally binding, solidifies the idea that the right to a healthy environment —a right that at least 150 countries recognize in some form—should be universally protected.

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