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The Right to a Healthy Environment

December 18, 2023

DOWNLOAD PDF SUMMARY: The momentum for recognizing the human right to a healthy environment has grown significantly over the past several decades. It has been recognized by national, local and international jurisdictions around the world, but in the U.S., only three states have integrated it into their constitutions. The right can be achieved through litigation, decarbonization policies and securing the rights of nature. Local, National and International Recognition Every individual, regardless of the differences they may have from another, is endowed to certain, basic rights such as the right to life and right to education. Today, the right to a

Confronting the Anthropocentric Mindset: Women, Faith and Climate Change

September 28, 2023

Earlier this month, Wilton Park, a U.K.-based center that convenes dialogues that address complex global challenges, hosted “Women, Faith and Climate Change: Working together to move faster on climate change,” a dialogue organized by Global One 2015 and Partnership for Faith and Development. The event gathered women leaders and male allies, both in the secular and faith sectors, to amplify women-led efforts, dismantle organizational silos and formulate strategies to combat climate change. As a young woman, I was proud to discuss the significance of youth engagement and of phasing out fossil fuels at this conference. I contributed a briefing paper,

World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap Fails to Include Biggest Transformation of All: Ending Financing of Fossil Fuels

April 12, 2023

SUMMARY: The World Bank Group is one of the most well-known multilateral development banks aimed at bolstering global sustainable development. In recent years, it has been widely scrutinized for its lack of appetite to tackle global challenges – namely, climate change. As a result, the bank is proposing a series of reforms in the Evolution Roadmap to improve its operations and financial capacity, and strengthen its mission and values. Back in the Headlines The World Bank Group (WBG) came into the headlines in February, when David Malpass announced he would leave his position as president nearly a year before his

EU Nature Restoration Law to Provide Clarity and Consistency

February 15, 2023

SUMMARY: The Nature Restoration Law is being debated in both the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, with an expected adoption by end 2023. It will complement and enhance synergies of existing nature-related legislation. Legally binding, quantifiable targets underpins the law’s ambition for nature restoration. Transforming Global Ambition into Policy By the time the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was approved at the end of December’s UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), a proposal for the Nature Restoration Law was already adopted by the European Commission and beginning to bubble up to the floor of the Environment Council for discussion.