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The climate crisis and the rule of law

Amendment No. 1 | Doc. 15353 | 27 September 2021

Committee
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Origin
2021 - Third part-session
In the draft resolution, at the end of paragraph 2, add the following sentence:

"The Assembly also recalls that although the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 5, “the Convention”) does not contain an explicit right to a healthy environment, the European Court of Human Rights has established, though its case law, that in certain circumstances, States Parties have positive obligations to adopt reasonable and adequate measures to protect the rights of individuals if their well-being might be affected by environmental damage".