UN declares right to a healthy environment: can the EU keep up?

The UN has finally recognised the right to a healthy environment as a universal human right. In a year that has seen people's basic needs threatened and violated by climate disasters across the globe, the EEB urges the EU to guarantee this right for all, write Ruby Silk and Margarida Martins. From heatwaves in Europe leading to droughts and wild fires, to the flooding of Pakistan which has... ...