Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature

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par Niak Sian Koh, Researcher in Sustainability Science, Stockholm University
Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Leader of the Human Rights and Environment Thematic Area at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University

When a hydropower dam in Argentina threatened to wipe out the hooded grebe, a bird found nowhere else on Earth, a local fishing community turned to the law for help.

The dam contravened Argentina’s commitment to halt species extinctions under the convention on biological diversity (CBD), an international treaty that obliges nations to address the loss of nature. But…

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