The Consortium for Ecological Law congratulates the awardees of the 2025 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy and invites you to follow the ceremony at Pace University in New York City on October 23, 2025

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has announced that the 2025 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy will be jointly awarded to Professor John H. Knox and Dr. David R. Boyd for their groundbreaking efforts as successive United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the human right to a healthy environment. The award will be presented during a ceremony at Pace University in New York City on October 23, 2025. Visit the Pace Haub Law website to follow online. [link to pdf]

The 2025 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy was jointly awarded to Professor John H. Knox and Dr. David R. Boyd for their pioneering work recognizing the right to a healthy environment. Together, Professor John H. Knox and Dr. David R. Boyd have pro-foundly shaped the field of international environmental law by laying the foundation for the recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Their work as Special Rapporteurs—Knox from 2012 to 2018 and Boyd from 2018 to 2024—has been instru-mental in inspiring legislative, diplomatic, and judicial support for environmental rights around the globe.

The award was be presented during a ceremony at Pace University in New York City on October 23, 2025. Visit the Pace Haub Law website to follow online.

Please follow the link below to watch the 2025 Haub Award ceremony and panel discussion on how scholarship, advocacy, and diplomacy converged at the UN to secure universal recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment—with the laureates and Am-bassador of Costa Rica to the UN Maritza Chan Valverde: https://www.pace.edu/law/centers-and-institutes/global-center-environmental-legal-studies/elisabeth-haub-award