Escazú Agreement

Now, it might seem that this is very nice in theory and in practice, how do we do this? But I really take encouragement of, I would say that the normative world is not dead and there are still important conventions that are there and people try to enforce them.

And I'm thinking, for example, about these treaties that are specific about the procedural access to information, participation and remedy in environmental matters, the Aros Convention and the UN Economic Commission and the Escazú Agreement in Latin America.

The Escazú Agreement was only adopted in 2018 so it's quite recent and I've really seen how groups and civil society has catalyzed around those agreements have been putting together campaigns to get implementation and ratification at national level and so they're still using this because From the international level, these aspects really can translate into effective policies with the support and work of communities and effective rights holders.

Thank you, Chiara.

Again, a good full answer there.

And what that grant is going to allow us to do is to run a climate justice program.

And so in that, what we're doing is we're giving people access to government information in terms of understanding the Escazú Agreement, understanding how climate policies are going to affect them, and then giving them the capacity to advocate for those things for themselves.

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