The Need for a New Covenant on the Right to a Healthy Environment

As humanity is facing a “triple planetary crisis” of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, it seems imperative to strive for an effective integration new international legal principles, rights, duties in environmental law. Following the recognition right clean, healthy, sustainable environment as human by UN Human Right Council (2021) General Assembly (2022), Covenant on Healthy Environment would reaffirm this right. It can also shape strengthen norms. In order ensure effectiveness healthy environment, proposed covenant need recognize other duties, principles inherent provide concrete implementation monitoring measures. This article examines adoption before addressing fundamental that should necessarily be included, analyzing how implemented monitored so protection our rights.