The Right to Healthy Environment as a Hostage of Global Warming: Cancun Conference (2010)

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The right to healthy environment is indispensable for leading a life with human dignity. It is a prerequisite for the realization and enjoyment of other human rights. Global warming that will create many Dangerous consequences for environment, and consider an essential threat for right to healthy environment, reveals necessity of take appropriate measures to protect this right. In this regard, the international society has tried to develop rules and establish various international conferences for combating to this phenomenon, after awareness of damaging effects of earth global warming. In Cancun conference that was held in Mexico in 2010, states tried to take another forward step for protect and support from human right to healthy environment, with ratification Cancun agreements. Nevertheless, it seems that it is necessary to take effective measures and all states shall be bound that do not make unfavorable change for proper life conditions in environment by their measures.

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