Why Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment Would Strengthen the Environmental Human Rights Framework under the European Convention on Human Rights

Why Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment Would Strengthen the Environmental Human Rights Framework under the European Convention on Human Rights Kobylarz, Natalia Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-04-07 eng The ECtHR lacks a mandate for general measures aimed at redressing or preventing environmental harm as such. Only the introduction of the environment as the object of human rights protection, through the Right to a Healthy Environment, could trigger the necessary conceptual shift and legitimise the Court and the CoE Committee of Ministers to require member States to take measures such as mitigation of environmental risks and ecological redress. CC BY-SA 4.0 Kobylarz, Natalia Art. 10 ECHR Art. 6 ECHR Art. 8 ECHR ECHR Europarat | Straßburg Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte | Straßburg Human Rights KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz | Zürich Right to a healthy environment Europarat | Straßburg Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte | Straßburg KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz | Zürich 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/ip-hr2he-recognizing-right-would-strengthen-echr/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/1fc1989caebfb3f6 250407 10.59704/1fc1989caebfb3f6 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)