Current Status of Climate Change And Human

Rights
A
Paper by
Dr.Bibekananda Chottray
Principal Ganjam Law College
& Sudarth Rath
Faculty Ganjam Law College
INTRODUCTION:-

Human rights and climate change analysis focuses on the anticipated

consequences to humans associated with global environmental phenomena
including sea level rise, desertification, temperature increases extreme weather
events, and changes in participation as well as adaptation and mitigation
measures taken by governments in response to those phenomena that may
involve human rights or related legal protections.

Climate change is a threat to human rights.

Climate change is not only having a devastating impact on the environments we

live in, but also on respect for human rights globally, the United Nations has
warned.

The United Nations rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, cited the civil wars
sparked by a warming planet and the flight of indigenous people in an Amazon
ravaged by wildfires and also the fire in Australian forest and rampant
deforestation. “The World has never seen a threat to human rights of this
scope”, she told the UN human rights council in Geneva.
 CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HUMAN RIGHTS

Issue – Climate change isn’t simply a political or economic issue. It’s a human

rights issue, perhaps the Biggest one in human history. If we continue spewing

greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we not only destroy ecosystems and

drive species to extinction, we directly violate human rights.

Extreme weather events are more prevalent in a warming world, leading

to death, destruction of property and crops and limited access to food,, waters

shelter, healthcare and education, as the United Nations Environment

Programme outlined in its 2015 climate change and human rights report.

Conclusion: - The Window of time available to us to make a difference

narrows we must find ways to make lasting global change, the answer is climate
justice.

Climate justice is the fulfillment of human rights in the face of climate

change. It is a process of addressing the climate crisis as a human rights crisis
and using the court of law to hold corporations and governments all our table.

Reference:-

1. UNDP (2007) Fighting Climate change. Human Development Report.

2. AD (Tiuwalue) – 4 June 2014, retrieved 2017-10-15
3. UN Reporter, 2019 – UNFCCC and HR Council