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⚖🌐 Is #climatechange on its way to the world's highest court?
A 🧵 on one of the most important pieces of #strategiclitigation one one of the world's most pressing issues.
#internationallaw #internationalaffairs #climatechange #InternationalCourtofJustice #negotiation
A 🧵 on one of the most important pieces of #strategiclitigation one one of the world's most pressing issues.
#internationallaw #internationalaffairs #climatechange #InternationalCourtofJustice #negotiation
This week, Vanuatu and fifteen other nations circulated a draft #UnitedNations #GeneralAssembly #UNGA resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice relating to the obligations of States in respect of climate change.
This is an important development in a process that I've written about before: patrickcjwall.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/fro…
A few key points of note in the draft resolution:
A few key points of note in the draft resolution:
#EllasLaw | Second reading of @GreenJennyJones's #CleanAirHRBill in @UKHouseofLords from 10am Friday 8 July HT @EllaRobertaFdn. It's about the #HumanRight to #CleanAir and meeting new @WHO guidelines asap. Follow this thread for live updates. Details here: cleanair.london/ellaslaw/
#EllasLaw | Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi-Debrah died tragically - aged nine - on 15 February 2013. #AirPollution was listed as one of the medical causes of death after a long campaign by her mother @EllaRobertaFdn won a second inquest cleanair.london/hot-topics/ell… 
#EllasLaw | Coroner's 'Report to Prevent Future Deaths' said:
"@WHO guidelines should be seen as minimum requirements. Legally binding targets based on @WHO guidelines would reduce the number of deaths from air pollution in the UK"
@GreenJennyJones' #CleanAirHRBill does it!
"@WHO guidelines should be seen as minimum requirements. Legally binding targets based on @WHO guidelines would reduce the number of deaths from air pollution in the UK"
@GreenJennyJones' #CleanAirHRBill does it!
#RECAP ⎮ From an important resolution and show of unity at the #UN 🇺🇳 to updated sanctions, discover the latest on how #France 🇫🇷 shows its support to #Ukraine ⤵️
#UN 🇺🇳⎮ #France 🇫🇷 co-sponsored the General Assembly resolution on #Russian 🇷🇺 aggression against #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
@franceonu urged all states to vote to defend the @UN 🇺🇳 Charter and to uphold Ukraine's sovereignty with this resolution 👇
undocs.org/a/es-11/l.1
@franceonu urged all states to vote to defend the @UN 🇺🇳 Charter and to uphold Ukraine's sovereignty with this resolution 👇
undocs.org/a/es-11/l.1
@franceonu @UN @francediplo @francediplo_EN @Elysee @EmmanuelMacron @Europe2022FR #UN 🇺🇳⎮ 🗳️ The @UN #GeneralAssembly adopted the resolution condemning this #resolution with 141 member states voting in favor.
Per @franceonu, this is an urgent call on #Russia to stop this unjustifiable #invasion.
Per @franceonu, this is an urgent call on #Russia to stop this unjustifiable #invasion.
I am delighted to continue to serve the Co-Chairs of the @TheIndPanel, @HelenClarkNZ & @MaEllenSirleaf as an advisor and coordinator of the Panel's follow up work. The Panel produced a series of papers ‘#COVID19: Make it the Last #Pandemic’ for the WHA:
theindependentpanel.org
theindependentpanel.org
We now have the opportunity to work together with govts, civil society & international agencies on the implementation of a package of recommendations to help end the current pandemic and to ensure we centre equity, leadership and multisectoral responses to future health threats.
Key recommendations include:
- the urgent redistribution of vaccine doses, diagnostics & therapeutics to low-income countries, scaling up of technology transfer and manufacturing capabilities, and developing a ‘global public goods’ model to pandemic tools 💉
- the urgent redistribution of vaccine doses, diagnostics & therapeutics to low-income countries, scaling up of technology transfer and manufacturing capabilities, and developing a ‘global public goods’ model to pandemic tools 💉
