Access to Information, the Hidden Human Rights Touch of the Paris Agreement?
(2017) Procedural environmental rights: Principle X in theory and practice — ISBN: [978-1-78068-610-3], 465-480, published
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- In a conference on the importance of procedural environmental rights, aimed at collecting and comparing experience gained with the adoption and implementation of these rights under various legal instruments, our contribution explores how the Paris Agreement on Climate Change echoes Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, as far as the ‘access to information’ pillar is concerned.Article 12 is a potential crucible for a renewal of the dynamics, at worldwide level, on how to improve concerted action in relation to access to environmental information, in direct relation to climate change facts and policies – or even more generally, especially in countries where the Aarhus Convention does not apply. Article 12 could also act in an interesting way as a horizontal integration clause, that might condition the content of the nationally determined contribution, or even give more flesh to the notion of ‘transparency’, as currently understood under the Paris Agreement.
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Misonne, D. (2017). Access to Information, the Hidden Human Rights Touch of the Paris Agreement? In Jerzy Jendrovska, Magdalena Bar (ed.), Procedural environmental rights: Principle X in theory and practice (pp. 465-480). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/229231