ADVISORY OPINION 23/2017 OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INNOVATIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

This article aims to analyze the innovations and contributions brought by the Advisory Opinion 23/2017 of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the protection of the human right related to the environment. The chosen research methodology was the deductive method of documentary, bibliographic and jurisprudential research. Initially it was necessary to contextualize the environmental right at the international level; followed by a brief review of the work of the Commission and the Inter-American Court in cases where indirect protection of the environment right was adopted, interrelated to another expressly recognized human right; and, finally the analysis of the effective contributions brought by said Advisory Opinion. In this sense, there is the emergence of an innovative and paradigmatic view of the environment as an autonomous right, as well as an expansion of the jurisdiction concept in the case of environmental damage.