The UN Environment Management Group (“EMG”), in close collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (“OHCHR”), will organise a 3-part series of virtual Nexus Dialogues on human rights and the environment, in alignment with UNEP’s COVID-19 response which emphasizes modernizing environmental governance and multilateralism with a move towards virtual e-platforms, while simultaneously lowering the overall environmental footprint. The 3-part series of Nexus Dialogues will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss innovative solutions and capacity-building efforts to pursue a rights-based approach to environmental action for people and planet. The Right to a Healthy Environment provides an overview of the importance and global salience of this right. It is followed by Examining the Elements of the Right to a Healthy Environment focusing on substantive and nexus elements including human rights and biodiversity, a safe climate, human rights and toxic waste, procedural rights and institutions, and what the UN can do to advance rights-based environmental action. Finally, Supporting Rights-Based Environmental Action: A Workshop discusses concrete and actionable ways forward to promote and coordinate interagency and UN system work on the nexus topics. The three online Nexus Dialogues will be covering:

1. The Right to a Healthy Environment – 24 July 2020
2. Examining the Elements of the Right to a Healthy Environment – 22 September 2020
3. Supporting Rights-Based Environmental Action: A Workshop – 23 September 2020