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Right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment will present a thematic report to the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly in 2024. The fulfillment of human rights obligations in relation with the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is particularly relevant in the context of the multiple planetary crisis of pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss, aggravated by systemic inequalities and discrimination. Nuclear weapons threaten the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a way to protect this right.
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