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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/c504eac4ab8d3842 https://verfassungsblog.de/intellectual-property-human-right-to-environment-introduction/ Intellectual Property and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment - An Introduction Izyumenko, Elena eng 2025-04-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 ECHR EU EU Charter Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg Human Rights Intellectual Property Internationales Recht Right to a healthy environment EU Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg Internationales Recht Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 With the effects of climate change escalating, there has been a notable increase in discussions about the, at first glance, not obvious impact of IP protection on environmental sustainability. At the same time, considerations of human and fundamental rights in the context of IP protection are increasingly shaping the legal discourse. Given these two major trends in IP law – growing attention to environmental sustainability as well as to human and fundamental rights – it seems that the time is ripe to explore what the human right to a healthy environment might mean for IP.