David Richard Boyd is a Canadian

environmental lawyer Environmental law is a collective term encompassing aspects of the law that provide protection to the environment. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the manage ...

, activist, and diplomat. He is

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment.

Activism

He supported the Escazu agreement. He supported a Jakarta Clean Air lawsuit. He called on countries to defund coal infrastructure. He is a supporter of the #1Planet1Right campaign. He endorsed a condemnation of the killing of Nacilio Macario. He presented a report about water shortages to the

United Nations Human Rights Council The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), CDH is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. ...

Education

He graduated from

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

, and

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

. He was executive director of

Ecojustice Canada Ecojustice Canada (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund prior to September 2007), is a Canadian non-profit environmental law organization that provides funding to lawyers to use litigation to defend and protect the environment. Ecojustice is Cana ...

. He teaches at

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

Works

Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment
The Conversation, October 27, 2020 *''The Rights of Nature'' (ECW Press, 2017), ISBN 9781770412392 * ''The Optimistic Environmentalist'' (ECW Press, 2015), * ''Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies'' (UBC Press, 2015) * ''The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment'' (UBC Press, 2012).

References

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