Advisory Opinion OC-23/17 on the Environment and Human Rights (2017)

Colombia submitted a request for an advisory opinion to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. As a result of this, some important conclusions made by the Court can be highlighted: Advisory Opinion (CIDH,2017) available in Spanish
 * States have an obligation to prevent environmental damage, inside or outside their territory.
 * The United States must act in accordance with the precautionary principle, effects of the protection of the right to life and personal integrity, against possible serious or irreversible damage to the environment, even in the absence of scientific certainty.