@duycks.bsky.social @sumarslan.bsky.social @camillapollera.bsky.social @andreadpaulus.bsky.social Laetitia Battisti @sabrinacajoly.bsky.social Laura van Tamelen @michelforst.bsky.social @marinecalmet.bsky.social Vincent Delbos
We are ready to keep engaging across the board – and beyond CDENV meetings – to ensure the Council of Europe stands for real leadership on human rights and the environment!
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We also organised a wonderful informal dinner on this issue with Senator Aurora Floridia, the Chair of the @pace.coe.int Network for a healthy environment.
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Outside the CDENV, we met with countries like France, Slovenia, and Portugal for constructive conversations on the legal protection of the right to a healthy environment at the Council of Europe.
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Highlights included:
⚖️ Applying European environmental & human rights treaties to overseas territories
🤝 Protecting environmental defenders (Forum on 3–4 June)
💡 Ensuring open civic space at COP31 & beyond
📰 Tackling climate disinformation
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On 24–25 March, our Campaign joined the first meeting of the @coe.int Steering Committee on the Environment (CDENV) in Strasbourg (and online), feeding into the implementation of the Environment Strategy.
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A binding legal instrument to do that is crucial to ensure people across the continent can live safely and with dignity. No time to lose!
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In a declaration, she called for the full implementation of the Charter at the national level, but also for the Council of Europe to go further by recognising an autonomous right to a healthy environment.
👉 pace.coe.int/en/news/1022...
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2️⃣ @petrabayr.bsky.social, President of the @pace.coe.int, delivered a strong message on the right to a healthy environment
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Fighting against this unacceptable legal discrimination is crucial for people living in French overseas territories, amid serious environmental violations like pesticide contamination and lacking access to potable water. The fight for justice keeps on!
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This could not have been achieved without the advocacy of actors like Kimbé Rèd - French West Indies (F.W.I.), which campaigned to overcome this “colonial clause” that excluded 2+ million people from seeing their social rights protected.
👉 www.change.org/p/tous-humai...
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Great environment news from Chisinau, where the @coe.int recently held its High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter!
1️⃣ France officially notified the @coe.int of the extension of the applicability of the European Social Charter to its overseas territories and communities
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It is encouraging to see more and more concerted efforts that would enable the Council to take a fundamental legal response to the triple planetary crisis and its impact on all human rights. We cannot wait any longer!
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Last week, France's COE Ambassador welcomed representatives from Andorra, Spain, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden to the Permanent Representation of France to discuss this matter.
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Our Campaign welcomes that momentum is building among member States of the @coe.int to make concrete progress towards negotiations of a binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment!
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These efforts mark a crucial step towards a legal response to the triple planetary crisis and its impact on all human rights.
Momentum is building — but we cannot wait any longer. The time to act is now.
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Representatives from Andorra, Spain, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden joined discussions at the Permanent Representation of France.
A clear sign that coordination is strengthening.
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@ciel.org @fidh-bhr.bsky.social @yeenetwork.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @amnesty.org @clientearth.bsky.social
🌱 The legal protection of the right to a healthy environment in the Council of Europe’s Member States
Read more about the process
👉 www.coe.int/en/web/reykj...
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🗣️ Protecting civic space at COP31 & beyond, standing with environmental defenders & their crucial work for our communities in all multilateral conferences
📰 A clear, concrete outcome on climate disinformation & human rights, following GME discussions around this
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We will keep up the work next week in Strasbourg, where we will call for:
⚖️ Application of the European Social Charter to all territories, including overseas territories and populations, so that no one sees their rights denied but rather strengthened
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Our Campaign members engaged in developing a coherent and ambitious Strategy at meetings of the CDENV’s predecessor, the Ad Hoc Multidisciplinary Group on the Environment (GME).
That is why civil society participation is so important to shape the next steps!
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The 1st meeting of the @coe.int Steering Committee on the Environment (CDENV) will be on 24-25 March!
This new committee aims to support the implementation of the Strategy on the Environment and advancing practical, meaningful action around human rights & the environment.
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In particular, we call on Council of Europe Member States to lead by example by:
✅ Sponsoring and securing the resolution
✅ Advancing a legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment
Read: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
@coe.int Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty urges UN states to back the UNGA resolution and act on the ICJ’s 2025 climate opinion:
🌱 Accountability
⚡ #PhaseOutFossilFuels
🗳️ Protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll
The law, the science & human rights are clear. Political will must follow.
In particular, we call on Council of Europe Member States to lead by example by:
✅ Sponsoring and securing the resolution
✅ Advancing a binding international instrument on the right to a healthy environment
Read: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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The law, the science & human rights all point the same way. Political will must follow.
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It is time for the @coe.int to take the next step & develop a binding instrument on the right to a #healthyenvironment.
The Council of Europe and the Environment must no longer lag behind in effectively protecting human rights and providing strong legal responses to the environmental crisis!
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We welcome this commitment and look forward to supporting @pace.coe.int's decades-long, continued leadership on protecting the right to a healthy environment in the @coe.int.
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Our Campaign congratulates Austrian Member of Parliament Petra Bayr, who has been elected as the new President of @pace.coe.int!
In her opening speech, she stressed the need for @coe.int advances on the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment.
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