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#US #tech companies, including #Microsoft, successfully lobbied the #EU to keep #datacentreemissions data confidential. This secrecy provision, adopted almost verbatim from industry demands, hinders scrutiny of individual datacentre pollution and may violate EU #transparency rules and the #Aarhusconvention. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Constructive meeting with Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #AarhusConvention. #Environmentaldefenders must be provided with a safe and enabling environment to carry out their vital work on promoting and protecting human rights relating to the environment.
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RT by @EU_ENV: Hands up if you care about having
🖐️ access to information on the #environment
🖐️ your say to protect & shape it
🖐️ access to #justice
The🇺🇳#AarhusConvention puts all this into practice. Parties are legally bound to uphold these #humanrights & protect #EnvironmentalDefenders
[2024-07-04 12:58 UTC]
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Reasons to support environmental defenders and citizens’ assemblies
Democracies depend on citizen engagement“States must address the root causes of mobilisation” not the mobilisation itself. Indeed, tackling protesters and not oil producers is the democratic equivalent of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic."
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https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-to-support-environmental-defenders-227742The repression and criminalisation of environmental protests
State repression of environmental protest and civil disobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy. Position Paper by Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention, 2024
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdfPublic Participation
The Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs empower people with the rights to access information, participate in decision-making in environmental matters and to seek justice. They are the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy.
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https://unece.org/environmental-policy-1/public-participationRe-imagining the Making of Climate Law and Policy in Citizens’ Assemblies
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnational-environmental-law/article/reimagining-the-making-of-climate-law-and-policy-in-citizens-assemblies/A591CF2EBFF3E60CF2BC4FE3655503E3
#activism #protests #HumanRights #PublicParticipation #democracy #governance #ethics #ClimateBreakdown #BiodiversityCrisis #Nature #AarhusConvention #rights #climate #CitizensAssemblies #CivilDisobedience -
“The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights," noted Mr. Forst.
"The environmental emergency that we are collectively facing, and that scientists have been documenting for decades, cannot be addressed if those raising the alarm and demanding action are criminalized for it."
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RT by @EU_EESC: #SDGs will not be achieved unless all actors are involved, incl. #civilsociety, @Tatiana_Molcean highlights at @EU_EESC, encouraging strong engagement at @UNECE Regional Forum on #SustainableDevelopment #RFSD2024 & continued use of 🇺🇳#AarhusConvention to protect our #environment
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/UNECE/status/1757795928277184853#m
[2024-02-14 15:56 UTC]
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RT UNECE
After 25 years of the #AarhusConvention🇺🇳, States’ compliance with environmental rights obligations matters more than ever
Discover this global treaty, unparalleled in its success in putting #environmental #democracy into action
👉https://unece.org/media/press/380162
#HumanRights #ForNature https://t.co/iBiwi6vz0u🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/UNECE/status/1673625396217102336