UN RAPPORTEUR SPÉCIAL DE L’ONU SUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES?

This report presents recommendations from civil society and indigenous peoples regarding the creation of a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change. Based on regional consultations across six areas, the document argues that a dedicated mandate is necessary to ensure a coordinated and global approach to the human rights impacts of the climate crisis, supplementing existing ad hoc mechanisms within the UN Human Rights Council.

• There is a perceived gap in the UN Human Rights Council's ability to address climate change globally, as current efforts are ad hoc, relying on resolutions, annual discussions, and thematic mandates of existing Special Rapporteurs.
• The proposal for a Special Rapporteur is supported by a growing number of states, including the Climate Vulnerability Forum (CVF) and Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members. The CVF allocated 50,000 dollars toward the creation of the mandate.
• Regional consultations with 157 participants from 55 countries identified diverse human rights threats linked to climate change: Africa focused on land and natural resource rights; Latin America and the Caribbean on access to information and justice; Asia and the Pacific on internal population displacement; and Europe, the Arctic, and North America on the right to a healthy environment.
• A primary priority for the proposed mandate is to hold state and non-state actors accountable for climate contributions. Specific goals include defining standards for causality and accountability of climate harms, ensuring ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and addressing corporate responsibility.
• The proposed Special Rapporteur should focus on highly vulnerable groups, specifically indigenous peoples—for whom climate change may have 'genocidal' impacts due to loss of land—as well as youth, persons with disabilities, climate migrants, and rural women.
• To be effective, the mandate requires strong political support and financial resources from Human Rights Council member states to avoid the perceived ineffectiveness of some UN mechanisms in influencing state behavior.

APA

Schachter, C. B., & Mingrone, F. (2021). UN RAPPORTEUR SPÉCIAL DE L’ONU SUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES? Center for International Environmental Law. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UNSR-Report_francais.pdf

Chicago

Schachter, Clémence Billard, and Francesca Mingrone. UN RAPPORTEUR SPÉCIAL DE L’ONU SUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES? Center for International Environmental Law, 2021. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UNSR-Report_francais.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{schachter2021rapporteur, author = {Schachter, Clémence Billard and Mingrone, Francesca}, title = {{UN RAPPORTEUR SPÉCIAL DE L’ONU SUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES?}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2021}, month = jan, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UNSR-Report_francais.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }