The new water diplomacy and the right to a healthy care

Abstract

"Water diplomacy" is a tool for resolving conflicts when watercourses are shared at local and transnational scales (Zareie, Bozorg Haddad, Loáiciga, 2021). Socio-environmental conflicts arise when water is managed among various stakeholders with competing vital uses, including those with differentiated "sovereignties." The safeguarding of the human right to a healthy environment, the right to water, and the right to sanitation must be considered particularly under hydric vulnerability. Recently, two international judicial bodies issued opinions regarding the international obligations of States in the face of a global climate emergency. These opinions may effectively create a new human right to a healthy climate, extending the scope of the right to water and adjectivating the scope of water diplomacy in order to integrate the protection of the planetary climate system.