Climate and Human Rights

The document establishes that climate change undermines fundamental human rights such as health, food, and water, while a lack of human rights protections increases the vulnerability of marginalized communities. It provides a framework for businesses to understand this nexus and operational principles to manage associated risks and opportunities.

• Climate change negatively affects several internationally recognized human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, housing, property, water, and an adequate standard of living.
• The lack of protections for human rights—specifically regarding access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to remedy—increases the vulnerability and risk for marginalized communities who are already disproportionately affected by climate change.
• The report offers operational principles to assist companies in the identification, assessment, prevention, mitigation, and remedy of adverse impacts resulting from the intersection of climate change and human rights.

APA

Tatai, J. (2018). Climate and Human Rights. We Mean Business Coalition. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/climate-and-human-rights/

Chicago

Tatai, Julia. Climate and Human Rights. We Mean Business Coalition, 2018. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/climate-and-human-rights/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{tatai2018climate, author = {Tatai, Julia}, title = {{Climate and Human Rights}}, institution = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2018}, month = dec, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/climate-and-human-rights/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }