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The Future Starts Now: Enhancing the Global System for Current and Future Generations

The Future Starts Now: Enhancing the Global System for Current and Future Generations

Together with the Center for International Environmental Law, FIAN International and Oxfam, we delivered a statement at the Summit for the Future to emphasise the role of the rights of present and future generations in ensuring more inclusive and effective policy-making, as well as to steering us towards greater justice and peace by ensuring societies where both people and nature can thrive.

The statement highlights that the outcomes of the Summit for the Future are essential to correct course and set the path towards greater justice within and between generations, including by accelerating and funding the rapid, full, fair, and effective phaseout of all fossil fuels and ensuring a just and equitable transition to sustainable economies.

In this context, the collective statement also reminded States to reflect, in their interventions to the International Court of Justice, the importance of the human rights of future generations and the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment when assessing the scope of legal obligations in the current process to develop an Advisory Opinion. This will be a critical process for developing human rights standards that effectively address the climate emergency.

You may read the full statement here.

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