Climate justice: UN rapporteur calls for • Table.Briefings

„Super Typhoon“ Yagi devastated Vietnam at the beginning of September, killing at least 21 people.

The Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Committee presents an explosive report to the UN General Assembly. The new „Loss and Damage“ fund should be geared towards „climate justice“: Compensation for poor states by the North and corporations, an end to „neo-colonial“ economies, „ecocide“ as a criminal offense.

A report from the UN Human Rights Committee to the 79th UN General Assembly intervenes in the debate on the distribution of „Loss and Damage“ funds for climate financing with an extensive definition of „climate justice„. The report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to development in the UN Human Rights Committee proposes four pillars (mitigation, adaptation, remedy and transformation), which are to be supported by twelve human rights principles.

Climate justice: UN rapporteur calls for compensation for poor countries

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