Birgen, Rose and Cocchiaro, Gino and Kempf, Isabell and Kibugi, Robert and Martinez-Pena, Rodrigo and Moseti, Benard and Muigua, Kariuki and Mulwa, Richard and Mutune, Jane and Nyukuri, Elvin and Ochieng, Benson and Stromberg, Per and Siakilo, Emmanuel and Tyrell, Tristan and Wandago, Ben and Wong, Grace (2019) Human right to a healthy environment for a thriving earth: Handbook for weaving human rights, SDGs, and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. SwedBio, Sweden.
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This handbook, edited by Claudia Ituarte-Lima and Maria Schultz, discusses strategies on how to weave the human right to a clean and healthy environment together with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework with a focus on the Global South. The authors, from various institutions and countries, reveal innovative strategies being utilized at international, national and local levels to recognize and implement the right to a healthy environment. Implemeting these strategies helps accelerate the transition towards sustainable consumption and production patters across the world, the access to clean and safe drinking water for millions and, the protection of the diversity of our planet. The global recognition of the human right to a healthy environment would be a significant step in empowering courageous environmental human rights defenders, women and men, youth and children who are ready to stand-up for human rights and healthy ecosystems. The handbook is remised on the fact that taking a human-rights approach to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework is critical since human rights provide an explicit normative framework which most countries have agreed to by ratifying the main international human rights agreements. Building on collective efforts such as the Machakos peer to peer Dialogue and the Nairobi workshop, two complementary strategies are proposed to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework: a) a right to a healthy environment as a standalone target and b) a rights-based approach incorporated across all targets.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Human Rights, Global Biodiversity Framework, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Ecosystem, Healthy Environment, Rights-Based Approach, International Agreements, Biodiversity |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2021 06:15 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2022 09:16 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/5996 |
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