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🪸The Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) is meeting in France today! (25-29 Nov) 📢 A call to Council of Europe member states: WE CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER to legally recognise the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in the European human rights framework! 🌏 The triple planetary crisis of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and pollution is an escalating human rights crisis that spares no one and requires urgent action. As the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights (#CDDH) meets in Strasbourg this November, we once again call on Member States to finally turn their words into action. 🐋The meeting comes already one year after the Reykjavik Summit, when the Council's political leaders committed to strengthening their work on the political recognition of this vital right. ✊Over 470 civil society, youth and, Indigenous Peoples organisations across Europe have joined their voices in calling for an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights dedicated to the right. ✍️Read more (and sign it!) 👉 https://lnkd.in/ejqh-88S Adding to that, more than 120 academics, researchers, and legal practitioners have signed a new appeal (still open for signatures!) with the same demands 👉 https://lnkd.in/ed-pJKgK Under a legally binding Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, the protection of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment would send a powerful message both at national and international level. It would demonstrate and reaffirm the Council of Europe’s Member States’ commitment to addressing the triple planetary crisis. The ball is in States’ court to stand up for the rights and future of their citizens. Will they heed our call and rise to the challenge? Human Rights and the Rule of Law #Humanrights #IndigenousPeoples #SustainableEnvironment #biodiversity #HealthyOcean #PlanetaryCrisis

Every time we learn something new in conversation with #children and child #humanrights experts on #climatechange and it'd be great to see this learning embedded in all UN processes, including (but not only!) through the monitoring work of #CRC and #UPR 🙏 thank you How To Child Rights series and all the wonderful partners for sharing what has been done, what has been discussed and already thinking ahead about how we can keep improving these conversations One Ocean Hub United Nations Human Rights Astrid Puentes Riaño

Elisa Morgera spoke to BBC Radio Good morning Scotland about COP29 today. Listen below to hear what she had to say. “I think the tone from the start of the conference was very self-congratulatory, congratulatory. But in fact, we came into the conference knowing that currently the collective plans to address climate change, are coming so much short of what we need. If you look at the plans for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by 2030, collectively they amount to 2%, compared to a 43% that we need to avoid what's called climate chaos.” “It still is quite uncertain what the cop will achieve and even that might not bring us out the needed action for the crisis we're facing.” “And the only decision that was adopted on the very first day, at night and without any discussion, was a decision on carbon markets where we lack, strong scientific evidence to show that they either work for mitigating climate change or to really bring the needed finance, to support the efforts to protect populations in vulnerable situations in the in countries that are most affected by climate change.” “We talked to additional of priorities and commitment. Yeah, that was very worrying … we were told that the big priority of this Cop would be funding and funding, especially for developing nations?” “This is an ongoing disagreement about not recognising that the funding is a matter of an international obligation and not it's not like, a nice thing to do or a moral obligation. On the International Tribunal for the law of the sea in April was asked to clarify state obligations on climate change, not under the Paris Agreement, but even under the law of the sea. And he clarified, the state developed states has binding obligation to provide that finance. When other states are facing a global environmental issue that they have not caused and that they are, disproportionately impacted by. “there is this fundamental, lack of recognition of the obligation of that finance and also the need to recognise that the amount of finance needs to be proportional to the harm that's already been caused to, those states that are bearing the brunt and least responsible, for climate change, and particularly the people who are disproportionately impacted, who are children, women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, older people, and so on." #climatesolutions #climatechange #humanrights #obligations #equitable #healthyenvironment #inequality #climatemitigation #healthyocean

🪸On World Children’s Day we would like to highlight some important Hub outcomes on Children’s human rights. 🎯Read our Policy briefs: ➡A Framework for Facilitating Children’s Participation in International Processes at the Ocean-Climate Nexus >>  https://lnkd.in/eVyWu8Dv ➡10 key messages for reimagining ocean literacies that consider children’s human rights to development and culture >>  https://lnkd.in/eqB5U5_J 🎧 Listen to our podcast: Episode 3 – Children’s rights & the ocean - Dr Mia Strand and Sophie Shields talk about children’s right to be heard on the ocean-climate nexus, ocean literacies (plural intended), the General Comment No 26 on children’s human rights and a healthy environment. Hosted by Dr Milica Prokic. >> https://lnkd.in/eHf46Brh 📄Children’s Human Right to be Heard at the Ocean-Climate Nexus >> https://lnkd.in/eA2ZGGWd 📄Protecting Children’s Rights to Development and Culture by Re-Imagining ‘Ocean Literacies’ >> https://lnkd.in/e3vuECfJ 🐋 Visit our learning Pathway on Children's rights and ocean governance at One Ocean Learn: >> https://lnkd.in/eWvR5q5S 🔹Protecting children’s right to a healthy environment, including a healthy ocean, is essential to ensure climate justice. Hub Director Elisa Morgera and early-career researcher Sophie Shields contributed to two international conferences on children’s human rights and climate justice >> https://lnkd.in/eRVZrXwy 🔹Workshop Reflecting on children’s rights and the right to a healthy environment. What are the intersections and opportunities for protecting children’s human rights and everyone’s right to a healthy environment, including a healthy ocean? >> https://lnkd.in/e6Ngy83a #WorldChildrensDay #childrenshumanrights #humanrights #participations #oceanliteracies #learningpathway #healthyenvironment #climatejustice #childrensrighttobeheard #oceangovernance #oceanliteracies

🐙 Hub Director Elisa Morgera spent time with young biodiversity and climate negotiators, hearing from young people #COP29 on enabling and empowering the next generation of environmental negotiators, ensuring their perspective drives change. 🌊 Read more on advancing children’s human rights and climate justice here: https://lnkd.in/eRVZrXwy #nextgeneratiion #climateyouthleaders #enabling #empowering #environmentalnegotiators #climatejustice #humanrights #childrenshumanrights #climatechange

🐟 Hub Director Elisa Morgera celebrating children climate defenders and the need to centre children’s human right in climate processes at all levels at last week’s press conference for children and young people at #COP29 #COPforChildren 📢 Listen to our podcast Episode 3 – Children’s rights & the ocean: https://lnkd.in/e7WewKrX with Sophie Shields and Mia Strand.

🌊 Hub Director Elisa Morgera shared insights at the recent UN-Oceans event at the UNFCCC UN #COP29  ‘Striving for Ambitious Ocean-Based Action: How UN-Oceans can support States in scaling up ocean-related actions, including in the context of the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)’. 🪸 Elisa spoke on the nexus between ocean, climate biodiversity and human rights and reflected on the importance of the ITLOS_TDM AO for effective, ecosystem-based and human rights-based climate action. Listen to our Podcast Episode 2: Ocean climate nexus & human rights with Mitchell Lennan & Kirsty Mcquaid   - https://lnkd.in/ePPdbP2W Read more: https://lnkd.in/ectGS-xc Read publication: https://lnkd.in/enzExDq7 #ocean #scalingup #action #humanrights #climatechange #intersectionality #participatory #cobenefits United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of The Sea (UNDOALOS); International Maritime Organization; UNDP; UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD); FAO; UNESCO Ocean; United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI); International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

We are pleased to share our new publication in npj Ocean Sustainability: "An Ocean Declaration for equitable governance to guide observation." This publication emphasizes the need to move beyond more ocean-based monitoring and data collection and prioritize equity in data governance. This is a call-to-action for equitable frameworks that guide who sets the agenda in ocean research, monitoring, and interventions. Thank you to our contributors for advancing ocean equity research: Yoshitaka Ota, University of Rhode Island Gerald Singh, University of Victoria Andres M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Simon Fraser University; SFU Faculty of Environment Eliana Ritts, Harvard University; Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Matthew J. Schneider, University of North Carolina Wilmington Ana K. Spalding, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Mia Strand, Nelson Mandela University Wilf Swartz, Dalhousie University Alexis Valauri-Orton, The Ocean Foundation #oceanequity #oceandata #dubaioceandeclaration

📣 The Hub's innovative work on ocean literacies will be presented tomorrow at 10AM CET! Presented by the Hub's Knowledge Exchange Associate, Milica Prokic. See you there!

🪸Who’s going to the UN-OCEANS SIDE EVENT tomorrow (Saturday, 16 November) at the UNFCCC #COP29?! ‘Striving for Ambitious Ocean-Based Action: How UN-Oceans can support States in scaling up ocean-related actions, including in the context of the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)’. 🐙This side event features a keynote speaker and two panels. The second of which our Hub Director Elisa Morgera will be speaking about ‘Integrated climate-biodiversity co-benefits that also have benefits for human rights’. An event not to be missed! Event details below: 🗓️ Saturday, 16 November 2024 🔔11:30 AM – 13:00 PM 🧭Location: Room SIDE EVENT 3 #ocean #scalingup #action #humanrights #climatechange #intersectionality #participatory #cobenefits UN Climate Change ; United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of The Sea (UNDOALOS) ; International Maritime Organization ; UNDP ; UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ; FAO ; UNESCO Ocean ; United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) : International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)