AO32 Symposium

Responses to the Climate Emergency

Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 as a Roadmap

On behalf of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), we welcome you to this symposium, conceived as a space for exchange and reflection. Its purpose is to open an informed, plural, and rigorous conversation around Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 and the challenges it poses for protecting rights in the face of climate emergency.

We convene diverse voices—environmental defenders, Indigenous peoples, jurists, scholars, youth, social leaders, and state representatives—to think collectively about AO-32/25, issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on July 3, 2025, and to explore how its standards interact with other protection frameworks.

Beyond its innovative content, AO-32/25 is the result of an unprecedented participatory process within the Inter-American system: more than 650 written submissions, three public hearings in Barbados and Brazil, and contributions from over 1,500 people and organizations across multiple sectors and regions—an effort that reinforces its legitimacy and reach.

We invite you to follow this series of articles share it and add perspectives from your territories and fields of work. Let these pages not only inform, but also spur decisions, forge alliances, and open concrete pathways to implement AO-32/25 and respond—through a human rights lens—to the climate emergency.

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Patricia Gualinga