CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES: RELEVER LE PLUS GRAND DÉFI DE NOTRE TEMPS EN MATIÈRE DE DROITS DE L’HOMME

The document positions climate change as a major human rights challenge, noting that environmental degradation threatens fundamental rights such as life, health, and food security. It criticizes the UNFCCC for failing to operationalize human rights protections despite recognizing them in 2010. The authors propose a human-rights-based approach to climate action, emphasizing the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, provide compensation for loss and damage, and establish institutional safeguards, including a formal complaints mechanism and a dedicated work program on human rights and climate change.

• Climate change is characterized as the most significant human rights challenge of the current era, creating issues of justice and inequality for millions of people and future generations.
• Direct climate impacts threaten specific regional populations: coastal and low-altitude residents face sea-level rise, Arctic indigenous peoples face melting ice, and communities in the Andes and Himalayas face threats to survival due to melting glaciers and reduced freshwater.
• Climate mitigation and adaptation measures can themselves violate human rights; specifically, REDD+ activities may harm local and indigenous forest communities, and large-scale energy projects may lead to evictions from ancestral lands without proper consultation.
• While the UNFCCC recognized the need to respect human rights in the 2010 Cancun Agreements, it has made little progress in operationalizing these protections in subsequent policies and institutions.
• The document recommends that the 2015 climate agreement include a formal commitment to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and provide compensation for climate-related loss and damage that cannot be avoided through adaptation or mitigation.
• To ensure accountability, the authors propose that the UNFCCC establish a formal complaints mechanism and a dedicated work program to monitor the integration of human rights into climate actions.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (2015). CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES: RELEVER LE PLUS GRAND DÉFI DE NOTRE TEMPS EN MATIÈRE DE DROITS DE L’HOMME. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CCandHR_Feb2015_French.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES: RELEVER LE PLUS GRAND DÉFI DE NOTRE TEMPS EN MATIÈRE DE DROITS DE L’HOMME. 2015. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CCandHR_Feb2015_French.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{centerforinternationalenvironmentallaw2015changements, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES: RELEVER LE PLUS GRAND DÉFI DE NOTRE TEMPS EN MATIÈRE DE DROITS DE L’HOMME}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2015}, month = feb, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CCandHR_Feb2015_French.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }