Climate Change
From burning forests to sweltering cities, parched farmlands to storm-battered coasts, climate change is taking a mounting toll on lives and livelihoods around the globe. Unless governments act boldly – and quickly – to massively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increasing global temperatures will cause more severe heat, droughts, and storms. By 2050, more than a billion people living on small islands and in low-lying coastal communities and settlements are projected to be at risk from sea level rise and extreme weather. The capacity of states to protect the rights of the most at-risk populations could be severely strained and, in many places, broken. Our ability to avert this dystopian future will likely depend, in large measure, on what governments do to uphold the rights of people today – those already enduring the impacts of climate change and those opposing the industries that cause it.
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“The Sea is Eating the Land Below Our Homes”
Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation
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Bangladesh: Protect People Most At Risk During Monsoon Season
International Funding Needed to Ensure Climate Action is Inclusive of People with Disabilities, Older People
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News
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Climate Inaction Not an Option for Maldives at COP28
New President Plans “Fortress-like” Walls to Counter Rising Sea Level
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As COP28 Opens, UN Should Take UAE to Task
Host Country Should Stop Rights Repression, Drop Fossil Fuel Plans
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US National Climate Report Highlights Climate Harms to Pregnancy, Newborns
Phasing out Fossil Fuels and Targeting Racial Inequities in Maternal Health Urgently Needed
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EU Foreign Ministers Should Urge UAE Rights Progress Ahead of COP28
Press for Fossil Fuel Phaseout, End to Repression of Civil Society
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COP28: Climate Action Requires Upholding Rights
Governments Should Confront UAE on Rights Record, Commit to a Fossil Fuel Phase Out
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California’s Governor Should Raise Rights Along with Climate in China
Gavin Newsom Shouldn’t Ignore One Crisis for Another
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Maldives: Environmental Protection Laws Bypassed
Reclamation Projects Harm Local Island Communities, Deny Climate Justice
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Rising Seas, Broken Promises in Panama
Plans to Relocate Indigenous Community from Flood-Prone Island Delayed
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Bold Action Needed Following UN Climate Ambition Summit
Heed Call of Global Marches to ‘End Fossil Fuels.’
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Plastics Treaty Draft Takes First Step to Reduce Production
Solutions Should Prioritize Fossil Fuel Phase-out Over Recycling
