The project aims at exploring the growing legal trend, at the international and European level, in using the principle of solidarity and collective human rights to urge States to tackle environmental problems and make progress towards environmental sustainability. Research activities will focus on recent developments which are taking place within the framework of both universal and regional human rights systems, not only in Europe, but also in Africa and Latin America, concerning collective claims to the protection of environment, intended as a common good of humankind. Special attention will be devoted to the intergenerational dimension of such claims, that is to their aim of protecting environmental interests and rights of future generations. Under this perspective, the issue of human rights claims relating to food sustainability, including the problem of food loss and food waste, as well as the need for food safety and security, will be particularly deepened. Developments within the EU legal order will also be thoroughly examined, with particular attention to both the Court of Justice “fundamental rights-based” approach to environmental issues and claims, and the role played by the normative value of solidarity in the EU legislation and policies concerning the “Green Deal”, the “new Circular Economy” and “Food Safety”. Research activities on the above thematic areas will be aimed not only at advancing knowledge on the interrelation and interaction between human rights and environmental protection, and the normative value of the principle of solidarity, but also at raising awareness in legal professionals and practitioners, as well as in public authorities, economic operators, organised civil society and young people, of the potential and specific features of collective human rights and the principle of solidarity, as tools to claim and obtain measures of environmental protection for the benefit of present and future generations. In this respect, the objective of the project is also to create and manage an accessible digital database (including commentaries), dedicated to legal materials (treaties; international normative and soft-law acts; international, European and domestic case-law; decisions and reports of human rights monitoring bodies; etc.) which are relevant from the perspective of environmental protection and food sustainability through human rights and intergenerational solidarity. Furthermore, a series of seminars on protecting the environment using human rights law and the principle of solidarity will be organised by the Units of the consortium both in the six Universities participating in the project and in a number of high schools. Finally, an academic conference will be organised to discuss the research topic and the outcomes of the project activities. Contributions in the conference and research studies carried out for the project will be published in a peer-reviewed and open access volume of collected essays.