5 June 2021
GENEVA (4 June 2021) – UN independent experts on human rights said it is time for the United Nations to formally recognise that living in a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. Around the world, there is a growing recognition that it is indeed a human right to live in a healthy environment, the experts said in a joint statement to mark World Environment Day. Of the UN s 193 members, 156 have written this right into their constitutions, legislation and regional treaties, and it is time for the United Nations to provide leadership by recognising that every human is entitled to live in a clean environment.
“We are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies”, the UN chief warned in his message for the Day, being marked on Saturday.
Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, on World Environment Day, Jun 5.
Kicking off the UN Debate on Ecosystem Restoration, Guterres said the planet was rapidly reaching a “point of no return”, cutting down forests, polluting rivers and oceans, and ploughing grasslands “into oblivion”.
“We are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies”, the UN chief warned in his message for the Day, being marked on Saturday.
UN independent experts on human rights said it is time for the United Nations to formally recognise that living in a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. “Around the world, there is a growing recognition that it is .
English News and Press Release on World about Climate Change and Environment, Shelter and Non-Food Items and Epidemic; published on 04 Jun 2021 by UN News