Spain must lead the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the EU: Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat that Europe and the rest of the world face. To overcome these challenges, the European green pact will transform the UE in A modern, efficient economy in the use of resources and competitiveguaranteeing that:
- They have stopped producing net greenhouse gase emissions in 2050
- Economic growth is dissociated from the use of resources
- There are no people or places left behind.
To achieve this objective, it will be necessary to act in all sectors of our economy:
- invest in environment -respecting technologies
- support the industry to innovate
- display cleaner, cheaper and healthier public and private transport systems
- decarbonize the energy sector
- guarantee that buildings are more efficient from the energy point of view
- Collaborate with international partners to improve world environmental standards.
Protocol ‘to guarantee the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment’
Ecologist organizations have sent a letter to the Government of Spain to request that it lead the adoption of a protocol “to guarantee the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment” within the framework of the Council of Europe.
Remember that this right, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2022«It constitutes the basis for the exercise of other fundamental rights such as health, food or access to water “, but that, in the case of Europe,” does not have binding legal protection that makes it fully enforceable«, As reported by conservation NGOs.
In the petition, raised on the eve of the World Migratory Bird Day 2025 that is commemorated today, demand a legally binding instrument on this «Right to the environment»In the form of ‘Additional protocol to the European Human Rights Agreement‘ in the 134th Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europewhich will take place next May 13 in Luxembourg.
The Council of Europe «He has the opportunity to adopt a historical decision and must show his leadership and initiate the legislative process of this protocol, or other instrument of equivalent legal force, which formally recognizes and safeguard this essential human right«, Says the statement.
Organizations claim that this proposal is supported by more than 500 civil society organizations, social movements and indigenous peoples that consider that «Its application would complement the environmental legislation of the European Union and would provide an approach focused on human rights, strengthening legal coherence throughout the region«.
The protection of this right «It is urgent »for its link with« the accelerated deterioration of the environment, ecosystems, climate and destruction of biodiversity«, According to the president of the APDHE, Tania García.
The right to a healthy environment “is not a luxury, is the basis of all other rights and this is the time to take the definitive step,” added environmental organizations “”political statements are no longer enough, we need a legal instrument that guarantees this right«. EFE / ECOticias.com