In a “Recommendation on human rights and the protection of the environment” adopted by the Committee of Ministers on Tuesday 27 September, the Council of Europe calls on its 46 member states “to actively consider recognising, at national level, the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, as a human right”.
Measures to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution are “essential to the better enjoyment of human rights”,...