Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to the Climate Change Crisis – Amicus Brief on Environmental Human Rights Defenders

This brief presents the submission of the Defendbio Legal Clinic with respect to the Request for an Advisory Opinion on African States human rights obligations in addressing the climate crisis submitted to the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights on May 2, 2025, by the Pan African Lawyers Union and others. Transnational Legal Clinic Defending a Living Earth (Defendbio Legal Clinic) at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Sociology of Law Lund University.