The 2024 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is underway in New York, bringing ministers and senior officials together to discuss how to get the world back on track to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

One of the key concerns is how best to boost climate action to ensure a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future for all - and the legal framework that can make that a reality.

Justice Nambitha Dambuza is a Judge of Appeal who sits on South Africa’s Supreme Court and she’s been explaining to UN News’s Shanae Harte the role judges play in environmental protection, and how human rights can be preserved amid climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.