UN HUMAN RIGHTS CLIMATE POLICIES
ABOUT
As the global partner of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance, United Nations Human Rights provides leadership and policy guidance.
At its core, United Nations Human Rights is committed to promoting, protecting, and advancing the rights of people around the world suffering from the devastating effects of climate change. Climate change threatens the effective enjoyment of a range of human rights including those to life, water and sanitation, food, health, housing, self-determination, culture and development.
United Nations Human Rights promotes climate justice to the 193 Member States of the UN, and reminds them that they have a human rights obligation to prevent the foreseeable adverse effects of climate change and ensure that those affected by it, particularly those in vulnerable situations, have access to effective remedies and means of adaptation to enjoy lives of human dignity.
Role of UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS
The human rights framework spells out the responsibilities of duty bearers to rights- holders with respect to all human rights harms, including those caused by environmental degradation. United Nations Human Right's 2018-2021 Office Management Plan aims at ensuring that: "International and national environmental and climate policies and plans increasingly are implemented in accordance with international human rights standards."
United Nations Human Rights aims to promote a human rights-based approach to climate action. This requires that States take ambitious adaptation and mitigation measures that are inclusive and respectful of communities affected by climate change.
They aim to achieve this through:
- Collaboration with partners to integrate human rights in environmental laws and policies;
- Support for the inclusion of civil society in environmental decision-making processes, access to information and effective remedies for victims;
- Assisting human rights mechanisms to address environmental issues, including climate change;
- Advocacy on behalf of environmental human rights defenders and supporting efforts by the UN system to protect them;
- Research and advocacy to address human rights harms caused by environmental degradation, particularly to groups in vulnerable situations.
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