Adopting an environmental rights declaration is only the start for Asean members


The right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment should be non-negotiable. — ART CHEN/The Star

THE right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment – in a world besieged by environmental and climate crises, this fundamental right should be non-negotiable. But this, apparently, has been a point of contention in Asean.

“Internationally, the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment has already been universally agreed upon in the United Nations General Assembly in 2022,” says climate activist and co-founder of Youths United for Earth Malaysia, Max Han.

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