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19 August 2021 | dataset

Climate wrongs and human rights: putting people at the heart of climate-change policy

In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries
are effectively violating the human rights of millions of the
world's poorest people. Continued excessive greenhouse-gas
emissions primarily from industrialised nations are - with
scientific certainty - creating floods, droughts, hurricanes, sea- level rise, and seasonal unpredictability. The result is failed harvests, disappearing islands, destroyed homes, water
scarcity, and deepening health crises, which are undermining
millions of peoples' rights to life, security, food, water, health, shelter, and culture. Such rights violations could never truly be remedied in courts of law. Human-rights principles must be put at the heart of international climate-change policy making now, in order to stop this irreversible damage to humanity's future.

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Physical Description: 34 p.

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Publisher Oxfam International
Modified 11 May 2022
Release Date 19 August 2021
Source URL https://library.sprep.org/content/climate-wrongs-and-human-rights-putting-peopl…
Identifier VL-35052
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location SPREP LIBRARY
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License Public
[Open Data]
Author Oxfam International
Contact Name SPREP Records and Archives Officer
Contact Email [email protected]