¿UN RELATOR ESPECIAL DE LA ONU SOBRE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO?

The report advocates for a UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change, detailing regional priorities and global consensus on the need for a rights-based approach to climate action.

• There is a global consensus among consulted civil society and indigenous groups on the need for a UN Special Rapporteur to address the gaps in understanding and applying a human rights-based approach to climate action, ensuring the issue is handled comprehensively.
• Regional consultations identified specific priorities: Africa emphasized land rights and climate debt; Asia focused on the criminalization of environmental defenders and internal displacement; Latin America and the Caribbean prioritized access to information and justice under the Escazú Agreement; and the Pacific highlighted the need for community empowerment and resilience.
• The proposed mandate should focus on the human rights impacts of both climate change and the responses to it, including mitigation and adaptation measures, carbon emission trading, and climate finance.
• A central goal for the Special Rapporteur would be to increase accountability for state and non-state actors, including corporations and financial institutions, regarding their contributions to climate change and the resulting human rights violations.
• The Special Rapporteur is expected to prioritize vulnerable groups, specifically indigenous peoples, climate migrants, women, youth, and environmental defenders, while facilitating their access to UN judicial mechanisms.
• For the mandate to be effective, it requires strong political support and adequate financial resources from the UN Human Rights Council member states, as well as synergy with existing UN special procedures and climate governance bodies like the UNFCCC.

APA

Schachter, C. B., & Mingrone, F. (2021). ¿UN RELATOR ESPECIAL DE LA ONU SOBRE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO? Center for International Environmental Law. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UNSR-Report_espagnol.pdf

Chicago

Schachter, Clémence Billard, and Francesca Mingrone. ¿UN RELATOR ESPECIAL DE LA ONU SOBRE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO? Center for International Environmental Law, 2021. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UNSR-Report_espagnol.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{schachter2021relator, author = {Schachter, Clémence Billard and Mingrone, Francesca}, title = {{¿UN RELATOR ESPECIAL DE LA ONU SOBRE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO?}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2021}, month = jan, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UNSR-Report_espagnol.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }