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ONU, 1 August 2022

Seventy-sixth session
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 28 July 2022

The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, recalling the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration), the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and relevant international human rights treaties, and noting other relevant regional human rights instruments,

Reaffirming
also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,

Reaffirming
further its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030 ensuring that no one is left behind, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner,…