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The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, better known as the Escazú Agreement (Spanish: Acuerdo de Escazú), is an international treaty signed by 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations concerning the rights of access to information about the environment, public participation in environmental ...
The right to a healthy environment is protected in several regional international agreements including the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Escazu Agreement, the Arab Charter on Human Rights, and the ASEAN Declaration on Human Rights. [4]
Hands holding a tree inside of a light bulb. Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It refers to Article 6 of the Convention's original text (1992), focusing on six priority areas: education, training, public awareness, public participation, public access to information, and international cooperation on ...
This law builds on the Escazú Agreement of 2018, particularly article 10, which asks parties to "develop and strengthen environmental law and access rights, awareness-raising and capacity-building programmes for, inter alia, the public, judicial and administrative officials, national human rights institutions and jurists".
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, American Convention on Human Rights, Escazu Agreement, Arab Charter on Human Rights, and ASEAN Declaration on Human Rights each include a right to a healthy environment.
The Access Initiative (TAI), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC), and the Government of Costa Rica appointed Becker as one of the five youth champions succeeding David R. Boyd on the second anniversary of the Escazu Agreement [13] as UNICEF Youth Advocates in 2020. [14]
Ecuador had ratified the Escazú Agreement in February 2020, a commitment to protect environment and land defenders by Latin American nations, which feature the highest rates of violent deaths for such activists, [15] 116 environmental defenders having been killed in the region in 2017, according to a Global Witness report.
Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability; Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds; Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area; Agreement on the Conservation of Seals in the Wadden Sea; Alpine Convention; Amazon Cooperation Treaty