Petitions & Letters
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EUROPE: Campaign for the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment at the Council of Europe
CONTEXT & ISSUE
In the face of ongoing environmental challenges, civil society organisations and social movements have come together to call on the Member States of the Council of Europe to protect the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment through an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.
The scale of the harms for people living in Europe, and the importance of coming to a unified approach in interpreting and implementing the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment makes it imperative for the Council of Europe to urgently take decisive steps toward the adoption of a binding legal framework that recognizes and protects the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
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ACT NOW
Join your voice to the Coalition for the Right to a Healthy Environment in Europe: endorse this letter and to share this call as widely as possible with other organisations that might be interested in joining this cause. The time for Europe to protect this right is NOW!