GI-ESCR participated in the launching of IACHR’s resolution 3/21
Invited by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights of the IACHR, we participated in the launch of Resolution 3/21: Climate Emergency: Scope of inter-American obligations regarding #HumanRights.
We celebrate this resolution of the IACHR and the Special Rapporteur in accordance with the challenges of our times. The latest IPCC reports are categorical: the effects of climate change are already being experienced. To avoid even worst consequences will require a radical change in our GHG emission pattern.
Watch the recording:
“The climate emergency is putting the full range of internationally recognized human rights at risk. Health, life, critical infrastructure, energy systems, housing, transportation are at risk from climate effects such as heat waves, floods, droughts and extreme weather events, among others.”