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⚖️🌱 This legal affirmation is built on widespread recognition of the right. It was the culmination of decades of work by communities, advocates, Indigenous Peoples, youth, scientists, and civil society who pushed for environmental protection to be recognized as a human right.

✊ Like the ICJ Climate Advisory Opinion, the call to recognize the right to a healthy environment was built on global solidarity, collective action, mobilization across generations and regions.

In Europe, one important gap remains. While the #EuropeanCourtHumanRights has increasingly interpreted the European Convention on Human Rights to protect people from environmental harm, Europe remains the only regional #HumanRightsSystem that hasn't yet protected the right to a healthy environment.