The Right to a Healthy Environment

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In 19 72, at the very first international summit on the environment in stockholm, advocates talked about environmental rights. In 19 94, costa rica wrote it into its constitution. There are a hundred and ten countries that guarantee humans the right to a healthy environment in their constitution. The united nations rights council just in october 20 21, declared access to ahealthy environment a human right.

In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature” – infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of Mother Earth. Part 9 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Reported by Amy Westervelt and Polyglot Barbershop. Script editor, Cheryl Devall. Production and mix by John Biewen. Music in this episode by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, and Fabian Almazan. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.