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The ECOSOC plenary negotiations successfully passed resolution 2022/25 the Kingston Plan of Action for Implementing the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment on December 2, 2022.

This landmark resolution establishes core pieces of UN architecture and sets out innovative demands on member states to adjust and prioritize an equitable arrangement for the global responsibility to ensure that the impacts of both climate change and efforts to develop sustainably do not adversely harm the human rights of the now global population of 8 billion people.

With a key focus on including special considerations for the most adversely affected peoples including indigenous peoples, women, citizens of developing and least developed states, and environmentally displaced persons, the Plan of Action sets out a commitment to a people-first approach to tackling the world's most difficult challenges.

After several days of tense negotiations, ECOSOC is heading into their final day of discussions to try and implement actionable guidelines for the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment.

Despite the chill of the sudden winter storm on Wednesday, the fierce debate got particularly heated when the delegations from Russia and

Negotiators have been divided over calls to protect sovereignty from interference in the face of rising demands for greater aid and transfers to developing states in confronting the challenges of climate change, environmental degradation, and the impacts of environmental change on migrant flows, food and water security, and economic stability.

The ECOSOC plenary negotiations for implementing the human right to the environment got off to an exciting start on Friday with a ground-breaking resolution extending human rights protections for persons displaced by environmental change.

The newly defined category of “climate refugee” was discussed with great hope from its supporters that refugee protections under international law could be extended to climate-displaced persons. Through two separate agreements the definition was extended to both refugees as well as internally-displaced persons.

The recognition of climate-displacement fulfills a key agenda item on the human right to the environment regarding the security risks of climate change.

On this site you will find all the submitted position papers and country overviews. You will also find the simulation agenda complete with links to daily debriefs and other aids including the Negotiation Handbook and Simulation Guidance package.

You will find the country overviews and position papers of all member states under the top menu: Key Documents.