Children’s rights and the preservation of the environment for future generations

Child activists have moved themselves to the front of the environmental protection agenda, and through this they have made the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment a children’s rights issue. The arguments advanced by them (and by adults assisting them) is that they are more impacted by environmental harms and are also closer to (or part of) future generations. This lecture will explore the right and obligation to preserve the environment for future generations, within a broader framing of inter-generational equity.

Prof Ann Skelton

August 3, 2023


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