[meetyeti] Fwd: WEBINAR on 6th April 2023, Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm on Right to Clean Environment

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From: Amrita Menon <amrita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Subject: WEBINAR on 6th April 2023, Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm on Right to
Clean Environment
To: <meet.yeti@xxxxxxxxx>

Environment Support Group (ESG <https://esgindia.org/new/>) invites you to
attend a Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution
<https://esgindia.org/new/events/esg-webinar-series-on-tackling-air-pollution/>
.
The second webinar in this series is focussed on *Right to Clean
Environment*.
6th April 2023, Thursday
6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
The Air Quality in Indian cities is deteriorating continually due to
excessive emissions through various anthropogenic activities. This is not
only taking a toll on the health of people living in these cities but also
the urban biodiversity and ecology.

[image: ESG Webinar Series on Air Pollution Instagram- 2.png]

<https://tinyurl.com/ESG-Air2>

On 22nd July 2022, the UN General Assembly unanimously resolved “the right
to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right”, noting
that “the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is related
to other rights and existing international law”.  It further affirmed that
promotion of this  right “requires the full implementation of the
multilateral environmental agreement under the principles of international
environmental law” and to secure which it called upon “States,
international organisations, business enterprises and other relevant
stakeholders to adopt policies, to enhance international cooperation,
strengthen capacity-building and continue to share good practices in order
to scale up efforts to ensure a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
for all”.[1]
<https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/historic-move-un-declares-healthy-environment-human-right>

The leak of Methyl Isocyanide from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in
the wee hours of the 2nd/3rd December 1984 killed thousands; and hundreds
of thousands continue to suffer from the terrible consequences of the
disaster (over 5,60,000 suffer by some estimates).  Yet, despite multiple
efforts, victims and their families have failed to secure rightful and just
compensation. The Supreme Court closed the possibility altogether recently.
[2]
<https://www.livemint.com/news/india/bhopal-gas-tragedy-no-more-compensation-for-victims-sc-rejects-centre-s-plea-11678774617907.html>
This raises questions about the utility of the Right to Clean Environment
being an intrinsic part of Article 21 – the Right to Life, incorporated in
Indian law by the 1988 Supreme Court decision in the Dehradun Quarrying
Case.[3] <https://main.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/8210.pdf>

According to the Environment Performance Index, India is the worst
performing country.[4]
<https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi> The
suffer disproportionately more due to pollution[5]
<https://tinyurl.com/airpollutioninequity>.  63 cities of India are amongst
the 100 most polluted places in the world.[6]
<https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/world-air-quality-report-2021-63-indian-cities-in-100-most-polluted-places-on-earth-67358/>
As
the 2019 Lancet study revealed, of the 9 million people dying prematurely
due to pollution – 6.7 million deaths of which were due to air pollution –
a million of these deaths were in India.  Yet, if cases in the National
Green Tribunal are any indicator, only 8% of environmental cases filed
during the 2011-2020 decade relate to air pollution and its adverse
impacts, indicating very low prioritisation for effective action in
tackling air pollution, despite its serious environmental health impacts.[7]
<https://thebastion.co.in/legal-policy-analysis/trails-of-environmental-jurisprudence-in-india-national-green-tribunal-versus-urban-air-pollution/>

   - Will UN’s declaration of Right to Clean Environment compel proactive,
   inclusive and deeply democratic decision making in accessing clean air
   everywhere for everyone and for all times, a reality?
   - Does India – soon the most populous country – have necessary
   regulatory discipline, and political and administrative will, to tackle air
   pollution with all the seriousness  this ever growing problem deserves?
   - What kind of monitoring is essential to make the wide public alert to
   the growing health crisis due to air pollution?
   - Are there global strategies that can assist India in responding to the
   air pollution crisis, and with urgency?

These and more questions which often cross our minds, or come to us when we
suffer from air pollution, will be interrogated by an interdisciplinary
panel in a webinar, the second in a series on air pollution that
Environment Support Group is organising in commemoration of 25 years of
service to public causes and advancing environmental and social justice.
*Panel*

*David Boyd,* UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
(2018-21) and Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
*Dr. Sarath Guttikunda*, Founder/Director, Urban Emissions
*Randeep D*, Commissioner, Health & Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka
*Chee Yoke Ling*, Executive Director, Third World Network

*Moderated by:*

*Leo F. Saldanha*, Coordinator/Trustee, Environment Support Group
*Bhargavi S.Rao*, Senior Fellow/Trustee, Environment Support Group

[meetyeti] Fwd: WEBINAR on 6th April 2023, Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm on Right to Clean Environment

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