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

@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.

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: hearings continue at 🧑‍⚖️ Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against 🛢️TotalEnergies 🔍 Focus today: expert hearings & civil liability 🧵 Live coverage in English below 👇 🇫🇷 See also live coverage in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social

⚖️ L’audience dans le procès contre TotalEnergies pour manquement à ses obligations climatiques a commencé ! Le tribunal pourrait contraindre les entreprises les plus polluantes à répondre de leur impact sur le climat et à sortir des énergies fossiles. Suivez cette première journée en live 🧵

⚖️ 🌐 🛢️ #ClimateLitigation update: court hearings continue at Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against TotalEnergies. The hearing continues, with focus on the review of Total's vigilance plan & of injunctions sought by NGOs & municipalities. 🧵 Live coverage in thread 👇

🔥 ⚖️ #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, 🇫🇷 🧑‍⚖️ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability. 📝 🧵 Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court ⬇️

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

🌍✨ We are at UNEA 7! #𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗔𝟳 is officially underway in Nairobi – HQ of @unep.org – and with our partners we’re rolling up our sleeves for a week of key negotiations and collaboration.

🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"

An additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights is crucial to protect all human rights from environmental degradation. We cannot wait any longer for the @coe.int to align with the growing international momentum! 2/3

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

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!

Tweede dag van de @pace.coe.int plenaire sessie. Hier stel ik de vraag wat de secretaris-generaal van @coe.int komende tijd zal doen voor het recht op een schone en gezonde leefomgeving. Zijn antwoord was dat klimaatverandering een urgente crisis is en in de Reyckyavick declaratie opgenomen. 1/

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

Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary. fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 happening now: #ClimateLitigation court hearing in Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭, in 𝐴𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑣. 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑐𝑖𝑚. This civil law case seeks to hold one of the largest carbon major accountable for climate harms. 🧵 live reporting from the Court house, with summary of legal arguments and key elements of context👇

Tussen 240.000 en 300.000 doden in Gaza sinds 7 okt 2023. De rode lijn is al zover overschreden dat ze volledig uit het zicht verdwenen is. En onze regering is, door haar inactie en geneuzel, medeplichtig www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buite...

⚠ Brazil | The environmental licensing bill already approved by both Brazilian chambers and awaiting presidential approval is contrary to recent decisions expressed in advisory opinions on the climate emergency by the IDH Court and the ICJ. PR: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

Landmark ruling in Belgium! Today, a Brussels court ruled that the Flemish government must block transit to Israel of all goods that can be used in military equipment, citing Israel's breaches of int'l law. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide.

📢New piece alert! Read Child's Rights International Network's take on #SB62 and what must happen at #COP30 on JTWP and NDCs, using the Advisory Opinion of the IACtHR and the right to a healthy environment as a normative background for the negotiations: home.crin.org/readlistenwa...

Uhm yes, LNG is bad for the climate: Requires specially equipped trucks or cargo ships ➕ Releases huge quantities of methane and carbon dioxide during extraction, processing, transportation and storage ➕ Has a 67% larger carbon footprint than pipeline gas 🟰 big environmental impact 1/2

🎉! De Tweede Kamer heeft 't budget voor #vrouwenrechten & #gendergelijkheid hersteld. Dank @daniellehirsch.bsky.social, @riadekorte.bsky.social, Sarah Dobbe, Mpanzu Bamenga, @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org e.a. die lieten zien: handen af van vrouwen- & LHBTQI+ rechten! www.wo-men.nl/nieuwsberich...

The #GENetwork is at the annual panel discussion on the adverse impacts of #ClimateChange on #HumanRights, focusing this year on facilitating just transitions that are fair, inclusive and rights-based. ▶️ tiny.cc/HRC59Environ... 📹 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...

Watch live now: a debate on the European Court of Human Rights, with the participation of its President: youtube.com/watch?v=GWN5... MPs from the 46 @coe.int nations bound by the #ECHR react to the recent call by nine prime ministers for reflection on the Court's migration rulings.

Vanuatu criticises Australia for extending gas project while making Cop31 bid #Climate

🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE. 🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms. 🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇

Samen met 100.000 anderen trokken wij gisteren een rode lijn. In Den Haag én tijdens het klimaatweekend. Wij eisen dat onze regering gaat staan voor het internationaal recht en dat ze luistert naar de meerderheid van NL. Stop de genocide en stop met het wegkijken van deze gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden.

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 @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!

Next week, the Dutch Parliament will hold a debate on the recognition of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int! 🇳🇱 MPs, encourage the Government to demand a protocol to the European Convention to strengthen human rights protection at home! healthyenvironmenteurope.com

Israel is mass-murdering children www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

🚨BREAKING🚨 The trial verdict is in. A jury in the Morton County courthouse found Greenpeace International and two Greenpeace entities in the United States liable for over US$ 660 million combined in Energy Transfer’s meritless SLAPP lawsuit. #WeWillNotBeSilenced

Een kritisch rapport over de milieueffecten van Schiphol is aangepast onder druk van de luchthaven. Termen als „onjuist” en „ten onrechte” werden veranderd in „deels niet consistent” en „discutabel”. Het gaat om een milieustudie voor Schiphol voor een nieuwe spoedwet, die meer vluchten toelaat.

63/ 🧑‍⚖️📅 the judge concludes the hearing by indicating that the decision of the Court will be delivered on Monday 14th April, 10am, in the courthouse of the Regional Court in Hamm.

52/ 🔥📉meanwhile, investors are feeling the pressure: German media indicates that as a result of the ongoing hearing exposing to the public RWE's responsibility for climate harms, the company's stock is sinking at the moment. www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/...

48/ "a 2021 peer reviewed study demonstrated that 95% of the warming experienced in that area of the Andes is attributable to climate change. Quoting Rahmstorf: it is absurd to calculate risks without taking into account the impact of fossil fuels burning on the climate."

39/🪦 Up to 5.000 people perished in 1941. ℹ️ Today Huaraz is home to 6.5x as many people as in 1941. Lake Palcacocha has 34x the volume that it did in 1990. In case of a GLOF, the population would have 15 to 20mins to evacuate the exposed zone. 👀 read more: www.andeanglaciers.org/palcacocha-g...

🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE 🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent. 🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room. 🧵 🔽 thread below

20/👀 Hold your breath: if the Court confirms that, in principle, the German Civil Code liability regime (neighborhood section, §1004) can be used to hold fossil fuels companies accountable,this wld constitute a very significant precedent as similar liability regimes exist in many other jurisdictions

🔥⚖️🌐NOW: historic moment for #ClimateJustice ongoing in #SaulvsRWE in Hamm 🇩🇪 📢this case could set a groundbreaking #ClimateLitigation legal precedent to hold polluters accountable for climate harms 🐦📝I will be reporting live on this platform, with facts & background 👇

Buy less, live more. Unsustainable consumption fuels environmental destruction and injustice, piling up waste so vast it’s visible from space. Let’s make the lower levels of this pyramid our new normal.

💜This #InternationalWomensDay we are celebrating women using the power of the law for people and planet💜 Here are 5 incredible women and groups of women who showed that all it can take is one step forward to make real change with a huge impact. Who would you add to the list? (1/6) #IWD2025

Climate change isn’t just an environmental crisis—it’s a gendered one. Women and girls make up 80% of those displaced by climate disasters, facing heightened risks of poverty and violence.

Een drukke dag achter de rug waar we het met het Nederlandse parlement en verschillende juristen en ngo's het mochten hebben over het recht op een schoon, gezond en duurzaam leefmilieu en de rol van het NLse parlement daarin. Benieuwd? Lees⬇️ Veel dank Saskia voor al het fantastische werk🙏

Great news from 🇫🇷 : MPs have voted through a ban on #PFAS in clothing & cosmetics + levying a fee on companies emitting PFAS. Now we need a comprehensive 🇪🇺 restriction on PFAS, and to defeat the industry lobby: chemtrust.org/news/pfas-ba... r.newsletter.generations-futures.fr/mk/mr/sh/7nV...

💚The Time is Now Today, the Council of Europe comes together to negotiate whether and how to recognize the right to a healthy environment. As the only regional human rights system that has not recognised this right, the clock is ticking, and the time for delay has passed #HealthyEnvironmentForAll 🧵

This week @coe.int's Rapporteur Group on Human Rights meet to discuss how to better protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. We remind them 500+ organizations & 200+ academics called on the Council to put the right in law to truly protect people & the planet! 👉 healthyenvironmenteurope.com