WEBINAR: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is releasing its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights, a landmark development that is…
San José, 7 July 2025 – Last week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued its landmark Advisory Opinion on Human Rights and the Climate…
San José, Costa Rica – The Center for Human Rights and Environment (CHRE/CEDHA) applauds the historic Advisory Opinion issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…
27 February 2025 CHRE Urges UN Action to Cut Methane and Address Human Rights Violations from Fossil Fuels The Center for Human Rights and Environment…
In a groundbreaking step to address the climate emergency and its profound impact on human rights, Romina Picolotti of CHRE, Durwood Zaelke of IGSD and…
4 December 2024 – The Center for Human Rights and Environment (CHRE) and the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) filed an amicus curiae before Ecuador’s Constitutional…
October 26, 2022 US Special Envoy on Climate John Kerry held a special press briefing in the run up to the COP27 meeting next month…
Jorge Daniel Taillant, speaking on behalf of CHRE and IGSD. June 23, 2022 The IPCC tells us that our GHG emissions reductions targets are off. We…
On April 4th, the IPCC, bringing together the world’s leading climate scientists, published its Sixth Assessment Report titled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change,…
The journal Nature published a review of CHRE’s Executive Director’s recent publication, Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers (Oxford University Press). Review reproduced below. Meltdown! The…