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Useful resources - Consultative meeting "The climate crisis, young people and democracy"

Bern Convention

Recommendations

  • Recommendation No. 158 (2012) of the Standing Committee, adopted on 30 November 2012 on Conservation translocations under changing climatic conditions
  • Recommendation No. 206 (2019) of the Standing Committee, adopted on 6 December 2019, on nature-based solutions and management of protected areas in the face of climate change
  • Recommendation No. 135 (2008) of the Standing Committee, adopted on 27 November 2008, on addressing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity
  • Recommendation No. 159 (2012) of the Standing Committee, adopted on 30 November 2012, on the effective implementation of guidance for Parties on biodiversity and climate change

  


 

Meetings

  • 10th meeting of the Groups of Experts on Protected Areas and Ecological Networks
  • Joint meeting of the Groups of Experts on Protected Areas and Ecological Networks and on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Publications

  • Landscape dimensions: Reflections and proposals for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention
  • Council of Europe Landscape Convention: Contribution to human rights, democracy and sustainable development.
  • The Landscape Award Alliance of the Council of Europe - Volume 1
  • The Landscape Award Alliance of the Council of Europe - Volume 2
  • National days on the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, in France (Strasbourg, France, 26-27 November 2019)
  • 22nd Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (Seville, Spain, 14-15 March 2019)
  • National Conference of Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia, 20 October 2018)
  • 21st Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (Tropea, Italy, 3-5 October 2018)

The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

Recommendations

  • Recommendation 298 (2010) Coastal towns and cities tackling threats from the sea
  • Recommendation 271 (2009) The global challenge of climate change: local responses
  • Resolution 262 (2008) Public local and regional action: for a new energy culture
  • Recommendation 215 (2007) Climate change: approaches at local and regional level

Resolutions

  • Resolution 317 (2010) Coastal towns and cities tackling threats from the sea
  • Resolution 248 (2008) Climate change: building the adaptive capacity of local and regional authorities
  • Resolution 236 (2007) Climate change: approaches at local and regional level

European and Mediterranean (EUR-OPA) Major Hazards Agreement

Recommendations

  • Cultural Heritage facing climate change: experiences and ideas for resilience and adaptation
  • European and Mediterranean major hazards agreement

Publications

  • Bio protection of Stone Monuments under Warmer Atmosphere
  • Cultural Environment as a Resource in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
  • Natural Disasters and Risks in World Heritage Monuments of Greece. Lessons Learnt
  • Policy Relevance of Small Changes in Climate with Large Impacts on Heritage

Meetings and campaigns

  • Webinar «Earthquakes in the midst of the pandemic»
  • Stand out in Disasters social media campaign
  • BeSafeNet Editorial Board Meeting
  • How much do you know about hazards ?
  • Olympiads

Environmental Protection and Human Rights

High-Level Conference organised under the aegis of the Georgian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers Strasbourg, 27 February 2020

Final Declaration by the Georgian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers

The Parliamentary Assembly

PA

  • Recommendation (2003) : environmental protection as a Mondial issue.
  • Environment and Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy: Work of the Parliamentary Assembly

Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

  • Climate change: a framework for a global agreement in 2015
  • Resolution 2210 (2018) Climate change and implementation of the Paris Agreement
  • Resolution 2307 (2019) A legal status for « climate refugees »

Reports

  • Inaction on climate change – a violation of children’s rights (Doc.14947)
  • Climate change and the rule of law: a baseline study (Doc.14972)

Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP)

Contributions by countries

Contribution by Austria: Cultural Heritage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development goals - prepared by Ana Steiner

Contribution by Croatia: Climate Change - The Impact on Cultural Heritage - prepared by Mirna Sabljak

Contribution by Estonia related to natural landscape and urban resilience - prepared by Liina Jänes

Contribution by Finland: Climate Change and Sustainable development thematic debate - prepared by Ulla Salmela

Contribution by Hungary: Cultural Heritage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development goals - prepared by Krisztina Kincses

Contribution by Montenegro - Implementaion of European Lansdcape Convention CoE in Montenegro, Coastal area Spatial plan - prepared by Sanja Ljeskovic Mitrovic

Contribution by the Netherlands: Climate Change and Sustainable development - prepared by Flora van Regteren Altena

Contribution by Norway: Climate Change and Sustainable development - prepared by Terje Birkrem Hovland

Other contributions

Contribution by IFLA Working Group on Climate Change - presented by Michael Oldham (following the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (October 2018))

EUR-OPA's work

Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on cultural heritage facing climate change: increasing resilience and promoting adaptation(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 7 March 2018 at the 1309th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

Report on the International Conference on “Culture Against Disasters Protecting Cultural Landscapes as Prevention of Natural Disasters”, 28-29 September 2018 Ravello, Italy

Publication - Cultural heritage facing climate change: experiences and ideas for resilience and adaptation - 2018

ICOMOS

RESOLUTION 19GA 2017/30 - Mobilizing ICOMOS and the Cultural Heritage Community To Help Meet the Challenge of Climate ChangeMobilizing Cultural Heritage for Climate Action - by Andrew Potts, Coordinator, Climate Change and Heritage Working Group

Climate Heritage Network Global Launch - Edinburgh, 24th to Friday 25th October 2019

UNITED NATIONS - Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Contribution by Freddy Paul Grunnert, independant expert: Climate slits: art, facts, hu.rights in culture, heritage and landscapes fostering wave horizons in climate change networks.

Thematic sessions

Thematic Session 3 : Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Mobilising Council of Europe Cultural Heritage Tools to Tackle the Climate Emergency

European Social Charter

European Committee of Social Rights (ESCR)

Monitoring of the implementation of the right to a healthy environment as part of the right to protection of health (Article 11)

European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)

Environment and the European Convention on Human Rights

Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

ECHR, 9 juin 1998, L.C.B. c. Royaume-Uni, no 23413/94

ECHR, gr. ch., 30 novembre 2004, Öneryıldız c. Turquie, n° 48939/99

ECHR, 20 mars 2008, Budaïeva et al. c. Russie, n° 15339/02, 21166/02, 20058/02, 11673/02 et 15343/02

ECHR, Taşkın et al., préc. §119

ECHR, gr. ch., Öneryıldız, préc., §91-94 ; Cour EDH, Boudaïeva et al., préc., §138-142

ECHR, 10 novembre 2004, Taşkin et al. c. Turquie, n° 46117/99, §113

 

Meetings

First meeting of the Directorate Committee for Human Rights and environment on 22 – 23 February 2011.

High Level Conference of 27 February 2020: Environmental protection and Human Rights.

Joint Declaration on human rights and the environment by the outgoing an incoming Presidencies of the Committee of Ministers.

Publications of Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law

Environment

Beyond COVID-19, human rights can help save the planet

Human rights and the environment: toward a new non – binding

Commissioner for Human Rights

Publications

Living in a clean environment: a neglected human rights concern for all of us

Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)

Sector « Protection of the environment »

Sector « Improving living conditions in urban and rural areas »

Sector « Natural or ecological disasters »

Sector « Education »

Compass: Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People

Human Rights and the environment

Education

Council of Europe activities for Sustainable Development Goal 4.

Council of Europe contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals: quality education and climate action

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Council of Europe Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

World Forum of Democracy 2020 – 2021

Monthly meetings

o   December 2020: Human Rights for the environment.

o   January 2021: Deliberative democracy for climate

o   February 2021: Disasters, displacement and climate change

o   March 2021: Inequality, democracy and climate change

o   April 2021: Environmental action at local level

o   May 2021: Defending the defenders

o   June 2021: Children and youth leading the fight against climate change

o   July 2021: The environment and the economy

o   August 2021: Technology, the environment and democracy

o   September 2021: Greening democratic institutions

o   October 2021: The future of energy

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