The Global Pact for the Environment has the potential to be a milestone in the rapidly developing relationship of human rights and the environment. Most importantly, the first article recognizes the right of every person ‘to live in an ecologically sound environment adequate for their health, well‐being, dignity, culture and fulfilment’. This article provides context for the proposal to recognize the human right to a healthy environment. It reviews previous efforts to recognize the human right to a healthy environment at the national and international levels; explains how other human rights, such as rights to life and health, have been construed to apply to environmental issues; and describes how recognition of the right in the Global Pact, or in another instrument such as a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, would contribute to the growing field of environmental human rights law.

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全球环境公约：在人权与环境的十字路口

《全球环境公约》有可能成为迅速发展的人权与环境关系中的一个里程碑。最重要的是，第一篇文章承认人人有权“生活在足以维持其健康，福祉，尊严，文化和成就的生态健康环境中”。本文为承认健康环境人权的提议提供了背景。它回顾了以往在国家和国际两级承认健康环境人权的努力；解释如何将其他人权（例如生命和健康权）解释为适用于环境问题；并说明如何在《全球契约》或联合国大会决议等其他文书中承认这一权利，