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, Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 is the result of an unprecedented participatory process in the Inter-American system: 263 written submissions of observations presented by 613 actors from different sectors, three public hearings held in Barbados and Brazil, and the participation of 185 delegations, 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.
Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva
Juan Sebastián Villamil Rodríguez
Tomás Pascual Ricke
Catalina Fernández Carter
Nikki Reisch
Luisa Fernanda Gomez
Romina Picolotti
Durwood Zaelke
Sebastián Luengo
José Daniel Rodríguez Orúe
Ricardo Terena