Reference Texts and Minutes of Hearings

Reference texts

2024

• Resolution 2577 (2024) and Recommendation 2286 (2024)
  Ensuring the human right to food
  Rapporteur: Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC)
• Resolution 2565 (2024)
  Safeguarding the human rights of future generations
  Rapporteur: Pedro Cegonho (Portugal, SOC)
• Resolution 2545 (2024) and Recommendation 2272 (2024)
  Achieving the human right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment through the Reykjavik process
  Rapporteur: Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC)
• Resolution 2546 (2024) and Recommendation 2273 (2024)
  Towards Council of Europe strategies for healthy seas and oceans to counter the climate crisis
  Rapporteur: Yuliia Ovchynnykova (Ukraine, ALDE)

2023

• Resolution 2477 (2023) and Recommendation 2246 (2023)
  Environmental impact of armed conflicts
  Rapporteur: John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA)
• Resolution 2493 (2023) and  Recommendation 2251 (2023)
  Political strategies to prevent, prepare for, and face the consequences of natural disasters
  Rapporteur: Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC)
• Resolution 2521 (2023)
  Mental health and well-being of children and young adults
• Rapporteur: Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC)

2022

• Resolution 2415 (2022) and Recommendation 2219 (2022)
  Inaction on climate change – a violation of children's rights
  Rapporteur: Jennifer De Temmerman (France, ALDE)

2021

• Resolution 2399 (2021) and Recommendation 2214 (2021)
  The climate crisis and the rule of law
  Rapporteur: Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC)
• Resolution 2396 (2021) and Recommendation 2211 (2021)
  Anchoring the right to a healthy environment: need for enhanced action by the Council of Europe
  Rapporteur: Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC)
• Resolution 2401 (2021)
  Climate and migrations
  Rapporteur: Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC)
• Resolution 2397 (2021) and Recommendation 2212 (2021)
  More participatory democracy to tackle climate change
  Rapporteur: George Papandreou (Greece, SOC)
• Resolution 2398 (2021) and Recommendation 2213 (2021)
  Addressing issues of criminal and civil liability in the context of climate change
  Rapporteur: Ziya Altunyaldiz (Türkiye, SOC)
• Resolution 2402 (2021) and Recommendation 2215 (2021)
  Research policies and environment protection
  Rapporteur: Olivier Becht (France, ALDE)
• Resolution 2400 (2021)
  Combating inequalities in the right to a safe, healthy and clean environment
  Rapporteur: Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC)

2020-2016

• Resolution 2329 and Recommendation 2174 (2020)
  Lessons for the future from an effective and rights-based response to the Covid-19 pandemic
  Rapporteur: Andrej Hunko (Germany, UEL)
• Resolution 2307 (2019)
  A legal status for "climate refugees"
  Rapporteur: Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas (France, ALDE)
• Resolution 2285 (2019)
  Sustainable urban development fostering social inclusion
  Rapporteur: Sybille Benning (Germany, EPP/CD)
• Resolution 2286 (2019)
  Air pollution: a challenge for public health in Europe
  Rapporteur: Serhii Kiral (Ukraine, EC/DA)
• Resolution 2272 (2019)
  Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: synergy needed on the part of all stakeholders, from parliaments to local authorities
  Rapporteur: Jennifer De Temmerman (France, NR)
• Resolution 2241 (2018)
  Nuclear safety and security in Europe
  Rapporteur: Emine Nur Günay (Türkiye, EC/DA)
• Resolution 2210 (2018)
  Climate change and implementation of the Paris Agreement
  Rapporteur: Lord John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC)
• Resolution 2152 (2017)
  "New generation" trade agreements and their implications for social rights, public health and sustainable development
  Rapporteur: Geraint Davies (United Kingdom, SOC)
• Resolution 2140 (2016)
  The exploration and exploitation of non-conventional hydrocarbons in Europe
  Rapporteur: Geraint Davies (United Kingdom, SOC)
• Resolution 2115 (2016)
  Forced migration: a new challenge
  Rapporteur: Philippe Bies (France, SOC)

Minutes of hearings

2024

• AS/Soc/NCP (2024) PV03add / Draft minutes

Minutes of the exchange of views on “The case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in environmental matters and the focus on the outcome of climate cases”, held in Strasbourg on 17 April 2024

 

2023

• PV NCPfem 01 2023 / Minutes

Minutes of the joint meeting (with informal group Women@PACE) held on 10 October 2023

• NCP PV 06 add 2023 / Minutes

Minutes of the exchange of views on “What protection for environmental rights in Europe after the Reykjavík Summit?

• AS/Soc/NPC (2023) PV02add / Minutes

Minutes of the public hearing on “Morocco: Access to drinking water (SDG 6)” held in Marrakech on Friday, 17 March 2023

• AS/Soc/NPC (2023) PV02add2 / Minutes

Minutes of the study day held in Ben Guerir on Saturday, 18 March 2023

• AS/Soc/NCP (2023) PV01add / Minutes

Minutes of the public hearing on “The right to a healthy environment and local democracy” held in Strasbourg on Wednesday, 25 January 2023

• AS/Soc/NCP (2022) PV03add / Minutes

Presentation of the 3rd report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), What Mobility for Tomorrow?, Promoting youth and child participation to combat the climate crisis

 

2022

• AS/Soc/NCP (2022) PV05add / Minutes

Mitigating the climate crisis: municipal action for the sustainability of energy and water supplies, Public governance of environmental policies: interplay between local authorities and national parliaments

• AS/Soc/NCP (2022) PV06add / Minutes

Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) European and Mediterranean, Major Hazards Agreement (EUR OPA)

• AS/Soc/NCP (2022) PV07add / Minutes

Climate crisis and Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)