Human Rights and Climate Change

Human Rights and the Environment In the face of climate change Stefanie Rixecker Chair, GT AIANZ

PART ONE: THE ENVIRONMENT ©CSIRO

Systems & connections… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Humans as part of nature… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],All living beings are kin. Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation

Humans as separate from nature… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

When the environment is a resource - ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Environmental policy developments ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

UDHR – Article 1 ,[object Object],© Carter Centre

UDHR – key principles ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Children in Newtok, Alaska © Brian Adams

UDHR Core Rights ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Environment & HR ,[object Object],[object Object]

Right to Quality Environment? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Links with other conventions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Further developments included ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Powerful international initiatives… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Regional options? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Bhopal women’s march, 2007

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Right derived from custom? ,[object Object],[object Object]

Resources & Subsistence Rights: Typology of conflict… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

PART THREE: GEOGRAPHY OF CHANGE

Climate change? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IPCC 2007… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

UN Climate Change Conference 2007, Bali, Indonesia – 3 to14 December ,[object Object],[object Object],Oxfam at Bali Conference © IISD

Climate Change Impacts ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Environmental Refugees ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Displaced peoples & destabilization ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Face of the future? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Photo: Polar Bear International

Indigenous rights & climate change ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Sheila Watt-Cloutier , Chair Inuit Circumpolar Council (2002-2006) & Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, 2007

Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s testimony ,[object Object],[object Object]

Not since 1931…. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Tuvalu – HR & Climate Change ,[object Object],[object Object]

Tuvalu… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Fanafuti, Wharf – Low & High Tides

Kiribati in waiting ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Critical rights to secure: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

At home… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

There is much to do… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness…

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