Introduction

• Art. 1 UDHR : "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscious and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood"
• Climate change impacts, directly and indirectly, an array of internationally guaranteed human rights.
• It has a profound effect on the enjoument of human rights for individuals and communities across the planet.

What human rights principles apply in the context of climate change?

• States are obligated to respect, protect, promote, and fulfil all human rights for all people.
• This includes an affirmative obligation to prevent foreseeable harms including those caused by climate change.
• The UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International
• Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(ICESCR), and the UN Declaration on the Right to Development all make clear that State human rights obligations require both individual action and international cooperation.
• According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms therein can be fully realized and everyone has duties to the community.

The United Nations Guiding Principles(2011)

• PROTECT States

  Duty to protect human rights

• RESPECT Businesses

  Responsibility to respect human rights

• REMEDY States and Business

  Duty to provide access to effective remedies for victims

How can human rights be integrated in climate-change related actions?

• Human rights can be integrated in climate-change related actions by applying a rights-based approach to poicy and development as called for by the Declaration on the Right to Development and agreed to in the UN Common Understanding of a Human Rights-Based approach to Development Cooperation.
• The UN Common Understanding emphasizes key human rights principles like universality and inalienability, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness, non-discrimination and equality, participation and inclusion, accountability and the rule of law.

CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS US ALL.

TO FIGHT IT WE NEEDA

HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH.

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS

Conclusion

• Anthropogenic climate change is the largest, most pervasive threat to the natural environment and human rights of our time.
• Climate change has already begun to have far-reaching environmental impacts, including many adverse effects on wildlife, natural resources and the ecological processes that support access to clean water, food, and other basic human needs.
• These impacts, combined with direct harms to people, property, and physical infrastructure, pose a serious threat to the enjoyment and exercise of human rights across the world.

What shall we do as KDIS community?

• Climate chage poses an enormous threat to the lives and well-being of individuals and communities. It is already contributing to drought, ecosystem degradation, and food shortages across the world
• Therefore, we, as KDIS community, can mobilize available resources such as knowledge, skills and experiences and act for sustainable, human rights-based development
• We can also facilitate meaningful and informed participation of everyone in the fight against climate change