*[Enwl-eng] How to ensure that environmental defenders can play their role freely and safely
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How to ensure that environmental defenders can play their role freely and safely
UNEA 5.2 - GREEN TENT EVENT
Date: 28 February 2022, 3:30-4:45 pm GMT+3 (Nairobi)
Venue: Green Tent (press room) @UNEA5.2 + Zoom (hybrid)
Link to webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87367157889?pwd=cTFiVWtzS0Q4VHlhbnl1VUswcXprdz09
Webinar ID: 873 6715 7889 - Passcode: 706645
Co-organisers: European Environmental Bureau, Global Witness, Earthworks, WECF, Reacción Climatica (Bolivia), PHE Consortium (Ethiopia), Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development, NGO Major Group, Women Major Group
Rationale:
Environmental defenders are increasingly under threat in many places around the world. Individuals and groups who strive to protect the environment and to defend human rights relating to the environment are regularly harassed and silenced, subjected to intimidation lawsuits, restricted by repressive regulation and orders, arrested, attacked and even killed. In its latest report, Global Witness documented the killing of 227 land and environmental activists in 2020 for defending their land and the planet, the highest number ever recorded.
The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) focusses on strengthening action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Environmental defenders address the worsening of the climate crisis, resist ever expanding resource extraction and exploitation and seek to protect frontline communities from deforestation, land grabbing and pollution linked to mining, dams, logging, large-scale agribusiness and other industrial activities. They uphold the rights of Indigenous Peoples, farmers and peasants, forest dwellers, women and local communities. They fight for long-term sustainability for communities against short-term profits for a few. This makes them crucial actors in realising the core principles of the 2030 Agenda.
This Green Tent event strives to raise awareness of government representatives and civil society gathering at and around UNEA 5.2 on how increasing pressures on environmental defenders threaten peace, human rights and environmental protection and limit our opportunities to achieve long-term sustainability. The event takes stock and gives space to experiences from different world regions. It discusses with experts from around the globe which measures are needed to ensure that environmental defenders can play their roles freely and safely.
Draft Programme:
15:30 - 15:35 Welcome and opening
Patrizia Heidegger, Director for Global Policies and Sustainability, European Environmental Bureau, Regional Facilitator Europe
15:35 - 15:45 Global Witness report 2021 on environmental defenders
Jago Wadley, Senior Campaigner, Global Witness
15:45 - 15:50 The situation in Latin America and protection under the Escazu Agreement
Carmen Capriles, Reacción Climatica (Bolivia), Co-Chair of the Major Groups Facilitating Committee and Women Major Group
15:50 - 16:05 Interventions from environmental defenders
16:05 - 16:15 UN-level efforts to protect environmental defenders
David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment (TBC)
16:15 - 16:25 How can the new rapid response mechanism under the Aarhus Convention protect environmental defenders?
Yves Lador, Earthjustice, Geneva (TBC)
16:25 - 16:45 Moderated debate with questions from the audience - closure
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