Right to a Healthy Environment at the CoE
@HealthyenvCoE
Campaign for the Right to a Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment at the Council of Europe #HealthyEnvironmentForAll Our letter: https://bit.ly/RtHE_CoE
Climate justice win! @IACourtHR elaborates legal obligations around a healthy climate as part of the right to a healthy environment. Meanwhile @coe still debates whether it should recognise it. Our answer? YES - we urge the Council to adopt a protocol to the European Convention!

Our campaign showed up in force at the #SB52 UN Climate Conference — joined by @SRclimatechange! European states must do their homework too & start negotiations as soon as possible at the @coe to legally protect the right to a healthy environment! Their credibility is at play.

📆 ⚖️ 🌱 join us today, 3pm at the 🇺🇳 #SB62 Bonn climate camp to discuss the process forward toward the effective protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in Europe under the auspices of the 🇪🇺 @COE! 🙏 YEE, @WY4CJ & @ciel_tweets for convening this timely event
Legally protecting the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll means saving lives—and strengthening the rights of people with disabilities. Green Rights Coalition's Andréa Paulus urges @coe to start work on a protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights to make a difference.
Despite repeated calls from civil society & parliamentarians, the @coe has not yet legally protected the right to a healthy environment as a human right. On #WorldEnvironmentDay, we renew our call to make it happen - for full environmental justice & ambitious action!
🌎Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay! Do you know what the right to a healthy environment is?
“Where there is a right, there is a remedy,” says @ciel_tweets's @Camilla_Pollera on #WorldEnvironmentDay We need an additional protocol to the ECHR to legally protect our right to a healthy environment and provide these safeguards. @coe Ministers, act now!
“No peace is possible without environmental justice,” says @PaxChristi's Martha Inés Romero. That's why Belgium & all @coe member states must support a new protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! @del_colson
Every day in Scotland & Europe, the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll is violated—especially for communities in situations of marginalisation. @ERCScot urges @coe States to urgently begin the legal protection of the right as a cornerstone of equality & non-discrimination!
At their meeting yesterday, @coe ministers postponed the decision to start negotiations to legally protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. They lost yet another opportunity to move past political statements & take urgent action. Our reaction: fidh.org/en/issues/busi…
🔥 🗣️ Today, the 🇪🇺 Council of Europe’s 46 member states missed a key opportunity to start the negotiations to legally protect the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment for all in Europe. ⚖️ 🌱 uk.news.yahoo.com/europe-lagging… @HealthyenvCoE @coe
No one should have to fight for clean air, safe water & a healthy planet! We fully agree with Aurora Floridia, Senator and member of @PACE_News. It’s time @coe Ministers commit to making a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll an enforceable right through a binding instrument!
"It’s outrageous that in 2025, Europe still hasn’t legally recognized the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll as a basic human right." Today, @coe.int46 member states missed again a key opportunity to legally protect this important right. Our reaction: ciel.org/news/coe-laggi…
In East Serbia, communities like Bor face water pollution and barren landscapes while mining profits take priority. The @coe must legally protect the right to a healthy environment to guarantee the rights of people like student Dejan! @RERI_org