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.

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Patricia Gualinga