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…
Discussions of the coming energy transition tend to lack nuanced information on the impacts that lithium mining has on the environment and local mining communities.…
29 November 2023 – Youth climate activists are calling for immediate climate action before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Under the AO Let’s Go campaign,…
El 9 de enero de 2023, los Gobiernos de Chile y Colombia presentaron una solicitud conjunta de opinión consultiva (AO) ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights agreed to the request to issue an advisory opinion on Climate Emergency and Human Rights under Article 64(1) of…
On 9 January 2023, President Gustavo Petro of Colombia and President Gabriel Boric of Chile, presented a request, signed by the Foreign Minister of Colombia,…
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, CHRE’s Co-founder and recent Director, has been named Executive Director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), where he will work to advance…