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 1/6

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! 1/3

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. 1/5

@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.

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. 1/3

Today, on #HumanRightsDay, we are reminded that human rights are not abstract ideals, but lived realities. And one whose protection stands urgent is the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌱 1/5

Our Campaign members showed up in force at #COP30 to advocate for the right to a healthy environment! They made sure the message was heard loud and clear across the venue & outside. 1/7

Our Campaign members were in attendance in Strasbourg last week to witness the opening for signature of the new @coe.int Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law! 1/5

Environmental protection in Europe must be rooted in: ✊ #HumanRights, 🗣️ Democracy, and 🧑‍⚖️ The rule of law. CIEL & @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social will be in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 continue to push for these principles to guide every step of the @coe.int’s work on the environment.

📢 On 19 November, a key side event at the Palais des Nations will focus on children, youth & Aarhus rights, and the growing recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌿 1/5

Two years after the @coe.int pledged action on human rights & the environment, it’s time to move past political statements. At our @pace.coe.int side event, experts & leaders made it clear: Europe must start negotiations to legally protect the right to a healthy environment! 1/3

Happening today ! 📣🌱 🔗Join us in Room 6 at Palais de l'Europe or via Zoom (no registration needed): coe-int.zoom.us/j/6379361368... Access code: 421303

At the @pace.coe.int session, MP @saskiakluit.bsky.social asked the @coe.int Secretary General what he will be doing in the near future to promote the right to a healthy environment. We need an additional protocol NOW to legally protect the right & protect all other rights from environmental crisis!

Climate activist Niamh Purcell believes the @coe.int has one way to signal to young people it takes their demands for climate justice seriously. Let's legally protect the right to a healthy environment, in a pledge for our shared humanity & future! bit.ly/4nEpvFy

Join our Campaign & MP Aurora Floridia for a @pace.coe.int side event on why the @coe.int's protection of the right to a healthy environment matters! 🎤 Hear from @srenvironment.bsky.social @duycks.bsky.social ocial @saskiakluit.bsky.social it.bsky.social @sumarslan.bsky.social & more! 1/2

Last June, Italian MP & @pace.coe.int member Aurora Floridia asked a critical question to the @coe.int Committee of Ministers: ❓Will European leaders finally launch the drafting of a legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment? 1/5

FIDH stands with @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social's appeal! The ICJ opinion was crystal clear: the right to a healthy environment is a prerequisite for the enjoyment of all other human rights. We urge @coe.int Member States to support an additional protocol to the European Convention!

Surely the time for excuses and delays is over. The Council of Europe must finally adopt a protocol recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. As the International Court of Justice unanimously concluded, "in so far as States parties to human rights treaties ...

Indeed we did! The climate crisis is more and more targeting our human rights.

The call comes from within – again! Last Friday, the Committee on Social Affairs, Health & Sustainable Development of the @coe.int called for the legal protection of the right to a healthy environment! 🌍 pace.coe.int/en/news/9992... 1/5

“The climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency. It is also a democratic test. When science is ignored, people suffer.” We couldn't agree more with @pace.coe.int President Theodoros Roussopoulos! 1/6

1/ ⚖️ A groundbreaking moment for climate justice! The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change, affirming that everyone has a human right to a healthy environment. A new legal compass has been set. 🧵

Climate justice win! IA Court on Human Rights elaborates legal obligations around a healthy climate as part of the right to a healthy environment. Meanwhile @coe.int 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 Elisa Morgera! European states must do their homework too & start negotiations as soon as possible at the @coe.int 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.int! 🙏 @yeenetwork.bsky.social & @wy4cj.bsky.social for convening this timely event

Legally protecting the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll means saving lives—and strengthening the rights of people with disabilities. @greenrightsco.bsky.social's @andreadpaulus.bsky.social urges @coe.int to start work on a protocol to the ECHR to make a difference.

#WorldEnvironmentDay: do you know the right to a healthy environment? Officially recognised by the UN General Assembly, it is fundamental to the enjoyment of all human rights. It is meant to protect people & their rights in the face of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss & pollution. 1/2

“Where there is a right, there is a remedy,” says @ciel.org's @camillapollera.bsky.social on #WorldEnvironmentDay We need an additional protocol to the ECHR to legally protect our right to a healthy environment and provide these safeguards. @coe.int Ministers, act now!

“No peace is possible without environmental justice,” says Pax Christi's Martha Inés Romero. That's why Belgium & all @coe.int member states must support a new protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! @delphinedelieux.bsky.social

Every day in Scotland & Europe, the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll is violated—especially for communities in situations of marginalisation. @ercscot.bsky.social urges @coe.int States to urgently begin the legal protection of the right as a cornerstone of equality & non-discrimination!

“This will be a key milestone in reinforcing legal protection for both people and the planet” #UN experts urge Council of Europe states to start negotiations on a legally binding Protocol that will recognize the right to a clean, healthy, & sustainable environment www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

More than 60 organisations have reportedly urged the UK government to back proposals for a binding protocol to be added to the European Convention on #HumanRights covering the right to a healthy #environment👇 🔗 www.scottishlegal.com/articles/uk-... via Scottish Legal News @coe.int #ECHR #R2HE

At their meeting yesterday, @coe.int 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: www.fidh.org/en/issues/bu...

🔥 🗣️ 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-laggi... @coe.int @alain-berset.coe.int @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social

"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 in Europe. Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/coe-lag...

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.coe.int. It’s time @coe.int Ministers commit to making a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll an enforceable right through a binding instrument!

In East Serbia, communities like Bor face water pollution and barren landscapes while mining profits take priority. The @coe.int must legally protect the right to a healthy environment to guarantee the rights of people like student Dejan!

Katarina & her unborn child face a bleak future due to pollution & vibrations from the Veliki Krivelj copper mine in Serbia. The @coe.int must act now to protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll through a binding legal instrument - communities deserve action!

States must act now in a global environmental crisis. Former UN Rapporteur @drdavidboyd.bsky.social urges @coe.int Ministers meeting in Luxembourg to start negotiating a binding instrument on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. You've backed it at the UN, now make it real for Europe!

A liveable future for young people & children is a right, not a luxury! As CRIN's Niamh Purcell says, legal protection of the right to a healthy environment would prove the @coe.int is serious about youth & climate justice. Ministers in Luxembourg, we count on your allyship!

The climate, pollution & biodiversity crisis is harming our health, says Denis Fernando of @friends-earth.bsky.social At next week's @coe.int meeting, Ministers must support a binding instrument legally protecting the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll - foundational to all human rights!

Celebrating the @coe.int foundation 76th Anniversary should be honored by starting the negotiations for a binding protocol to protect the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all Europeans. #HealthyEnvironment

The Ministers at the Council of Europe (@coe.int) must start negotiations for a binding protocol to recognize the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment under the European Convention on Human Rights. #HealthyEnviro #CouncilOfEurope #HumanRights

UN experts urge @coe.int Member States to negotiate an additional protocol to the European Convention to protect the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment. No more delays for a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... @srenvironment.bsky.social @srtoxics.bsky.social

Looking forward to the meeting tomorrow, and trusting that parliamentarians from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 will also support the recognition by the Council of Europe of the human right to a hashtag #HealthyEnvironment

Some good news from the @coe.int : in May, the Council of Ministers will adopt a Strategy on the Environment! 🚨But this comprehensive strategy now requires a solid backbone: Member States must commit to protecting legally the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! 🧵 1/8

Thank you, Aurora Floridia, for your support for the legal protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int! @pace.coe.int members are once again showing leadership on this crucial issue. Ministers must do the same at their May meeting - time to act NOW & recognise the right!

The Netherlands must support an Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! We wrote to Dutch political parties ahead of a Parliamentary debate to explain why. One reason? This right also benefits responsible businesses!

The @coe.int is discussing whether to legally recognise the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. At a Dutch Parliament debate next week, MPs can demand a strong position from the government - one standing for unity among European countries when protecting the environment!

Netherlands, let’s unite for the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! This Tuesday, Dutch Parliament will debate its recognition at the @coe.int. Push 🇳🇱 government to stand up for a protocol that can enshrine a key right & prevent corporate claims undermining environmental action!