July 25, 2012

Member Scholar John Knox Appointed to United Nations Post on Human Rights and the Environment

by Rena Steinzor

CPR Member Scholar John Knox has been appointed the U.N. Human Rights Council’s first Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment.

The position was created in March with a mandate to study the relationship of human rights and the environment, and prepare a series of reports to the Human Rights Council over the next three years. The mission will be to “identify, promote and exchange views on best practices relating to the use of human rights obligations and commitments to inform, support and strengthen environmental policymaking, especially in the area of environmental protection.”

Knox has published extensively on the intersection of human rights and the environment, and co-authored the CPR white paper Reclaiming Global Environmental Leadership: Why the United States Should Ratify Ten Pending Environmental Treaties, published earlier this year. He is a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, and has been a Member Scholar with CPR since 2010.

My warmest congratulations!


Rena Steinzor, CPR President; Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law. Bio.

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