Join the Global Pact Coalition and support
the adoption of an ambitious treaty
on the environment at the UN.
The Global Pact for the Environment is a draft international treaty, which aims to recognize a new generation of fundamental rights and duties related to the protection of the environment, and in particular, the right to a healthy environment. While many States support its adoption, a few States are strongly opposed to it. This is why civil society must come together to ask States to recognize our environmental rights and protect the environment. To this end, we launched a large coalition bringing together NGOs, activists, artists, citizens, lawyers and scientists: the Global Pact Coalition.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child published its general comment n°26 on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change. In its comment, it confirms that children have a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The Secretariat of the intergovernmental negotiating committee tasked with elaborating a treaty on plastic pollution has issued an invitation to provide written submissions on elements not discussed at the last session of negotiations, INC-2. The GPC has sent its written submission.
The Secretariat of the Montevideo Environmental Law Programme is currently working on a partnerships and stakeholder engagement strategy. The Secretariat invited all interested stakeholders and partners of the Programme to comment on the annotated outline of the strategy. The Global Pact Coalition has sent its commentary.
The Global Coalition of Civil Society, Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and Local Communities for the Universal Recognition of the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment wins the UN 2023 Human Rights Award. The Coalition is recognized for its critical role in advocating for the recognition of the right to a healthy environment by the UN General Assembly in 2022.
"This is not the right versus the left because there is no liberal air or conservative air. We all breathe the same air. There is no liberal water or conservative water, we all drink the same water."
"The Pact is supported by scientists, professors, students, celebrities, artists and many climate advocates who all believe that the time to act for our planet has come."
"A pact that can become the foundation of a new social contract for humanity."
"A Pact that recognizes the right of everybody to a healthy environment, that recognizes the duty of States and citizens everywhere to take care of the environment.”
"This pact is a paradigm shift: it allows us to do at the level of the environment what has been done for human rights.”
"Never was the time more opportune to support a Global Pact for the Environment”
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