The right to a healthy environment has gained constitutional recognition and protection in more than 100 States; the strongest form of legal protection available. About two thirds of the constitutional rights refer to a healthy environment; alternative formulations include rights to a clean, safe, favourable, wholesome or ecologically balanced environment.
Find out your country status using the map and table below.
Light green: Countries with constitutional provisions for a healthy environment
Source: Environmental Rule of Law Report, Figure 4.5
Know your rights
Your environmental rights are determined by the constitution, court decisions, environmental laws, as well as ratified human rights and environmental treaties in your country or locale. Discover environmental rights in your country's:
- constitution
- environmental jurisprudence (court decisions)
- environmental laws
- environmental treaties
- human rights treaties
