Amnesty International’s Comments on the First Draft of the Ministerial Declaration for the Sixth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly

This document is a comment submission by Amnesty International on the first draft of the Ministerial Declaration for the Sixth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly. It explains the organization’s purpose: to strengthen the draft declaration by explicitly embedding human rights obligations throughout and ensuring that states’ responses to the planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are consistent with human rights law. The scope covers human rights integration, debt and climate justice, protection of environmental defenders, and equitable transitions. It contextualizes its suggestions within international law and existing multilateral frameworks. The key findings emphasize that human rights principles must underpin climate and environmental action to ensure equity, inclusivity, and accountability, and that the declaration should reference these obligations throughout.