Recommendations for advancing climate justice through increased recognition and protection of land and environmental defenders

A joint briefing by six human rights and climate justice organizations released at COP27, providing recommendations to policymakers to protect land and environmental defenders and ensure the safe participation of civil society in COP conferences.

• The briefing urges COP27 policymakers to acknowledge the connection between the climate crisis and the increase in repression and violence against land and environmental defenders, and to implement measures that protect these defenders' roles in driving climate action.
• The organizations recommend strengthening the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) action plan by holding a dialogue on environmental human rights defenders—including frontline communities and Indigenous peoples—to identify obstacles to their rights regarding education, public participation, and access to information, and to provide targeted recommendations for their protection.
• The briefing calls for the inclusion of human rights experts, Indigenous peoples, and environmental defenders in the Global Stocktake's technical dialogues and roundtables, with the goal that the Stocktake's outcomes provide specific guidance on fulfilling human rights obligations and protecting the rights of land and environmental defenders.

APA

Natural Justice (2022). Recommendations for advancing climate justice through increased recognition and protection of land and environmental defenders. https://naturaljustice.org/publication/joint-ng0-briefing-at-cop27/

Chicago

Natural Justice. Recommendations for advancing climate justice through increased recognition and protection of land and environmental defenders. 2022. https://naturaljustice.org/publication/joint-ng0-briefing-at-cop27/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Natural Justice |title=Recommendations for advancing climate justice through increased recognition and protection of land and environmental defenders |date=3 November 2022 |url=https://naturaljustice.org/publication/joint-ng0-briefing-at-cop27/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{naturaljustice2022recommendations, author = {{Natural Justice}}, title = {{Recommendations for advancing climate justice through increased recognition and protection of land and environmental defenders}}, institution = {Natural Justice}, year = {2022}, month = nov, url = {https://naturaljustice.org/publication/joint-ng0-briefing-at-cop27/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }