UNDP Hour: The right to a healthy environment at STHLM+50 Climate Hub, May 31 2022

In 2021, for the first time ever, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution recognizing that access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.

The air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink; our health, wellbeing and survival all depend on a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The new resolution underscores the right to participate in decision-making processes, to have access to information and the ability to seek and secure effective remedies. In this spirit, UNDP has hosted country consultations with citizens in over 50 countries ahead of Stockholm+50.

What does this new resolution mean for people and planet? What is needed for this right to be effectively executed? And will the country consultations contribute to a more equitable form of decision-making during Stockholm+50?

**Speakers: **

David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment

Ulrika Modéer, Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Director of Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy

Archana Soreng, Environmental Activist and member from the Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate

Gustavo Manrique, Minister of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition

Matilde Mordt, UNDP Resident Representative of Ecuador

**Moderator: **

Victor Galaz, Deputy Director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

Date and time: 31 May, 12.00 - 13.00 CEST / 6.00 am - 7.00 am EST