Side Event at Costa Rica PreCOP25: Legal Innovations to Enhance Climate Action: Nature Based Solutions and Human Rights Approaches

This side event at the Costa Rica PreCOP focused on “Legal Innovations to Enhance Climate Action: Nature Based Solutions and Human Rights Approaches”. The event was held as a chaired colloquium or conversational dialogue. The session began with brief interventions by experts followed by questions formulated by the chair. Panellists analysed the legal approaches at the national and international level that promote Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to combat climate change, assist in the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Katowice Rulebook and the transformation of environmental, social and economic challenges into renewed opportunities. Additionally, the session analysed the role of the judiciary and its contribution to the promotion of NBS through the application of legal principles and jurisdictional measures, the prevention of damage and the advancement of the implementation of the Paris Agreement with high levels of ambition.

Through the analysis and the exchange of information the aim of the session was to identify good legal and judicial practices to:

• Scale-up the implementation and effective operation of the Paris Agreement through NBS to protect people, the means of life subsistence and ecosystems,
• Achieve greater synergies with other related legal instruments and the enforcement of State human rights obligations considering the ethic and equality principles inherent to the judicial function, and
• Gather material to maximise the effectiveness and progressivity of the legal and judicial responses to the pressing climate risks.

Event details: 

• Date: 9 October 2019
• Time: 16:45 – 18:15
• Venue: PRECoP25 Conference Centre, Salón Cartago

The programmes for this event can be accessed here in English and Spanish. Email climatelawgovernance@cisdl.org for more information.