We are facing a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem loss, and pollution. This triple planetary crisis impacts the full enjoyment of human rights (including social, economic and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights) both directly and indirectly. These interlinked crises act as threat multipliers, amplifying conflicts, tensions and structural inequalities, and forcing people into increasingly vulnerable situations. Environmental threats, as they intensify, will constitute one of the greatest challenges to human rights in our era and are already contributing to people being left behind in the quest to achieve sustainable peace and development, increasing environmental injustices. The COVID-19 pandemic has further aggravated this scenario and has exposed deep inequalities in the distribution of wealth and resources, in the delivery of basic services, in the equitable access to justice and security for all, and in the promotion and protection of human rights.