Environment as a Human Right: Responsibility Demanded

(© Bobby Inglish, via Greenpeace Luxembourg) According to the NGOs Greenpeace, ASTM and Fairtrade Lëtzebuerg, the Luxembourg government is delaying the introduction of a new right into the European Convention on Human Rights: that of a healthy, clean and sustainable environment. For decades, its introduction has been called for as a legally binding additional protocol (woxx 1825). To this end, a mandate should be decided and negotiations should …