Demonstrating how climate change is driving human rights violations could be a key to motivating action on the climate, according to experts at the UN Secretary-General's climate summit. The summit in New York City will focus on "ways and means of addressing climate change, including through international cooperation," said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The push to tie climate change to human rights violations is being aided by the rising ability of scientists to quickly tie specific extreme weather - from heatwaves in Europe to floods in Bangladesh - to climate change. By showing that inaction on the environment causes human rights violations, like famine and migration, organisations such as Amnesty International aim to galvanise public protests and legal steps to push governments to act.
Demonstrating how climate change is driving human rights violations could be a key to motivating action on the climate, according to experts at the UN Secretary-General's climate summit. The summit in New York City will focus on "ways and means of addressing climate change, including through international cooperation," said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. By showing that inaction on the environment causes human rights violations, like famine and migration, organisations such as Amnesty International aim to galvanise public protests and legal steps to push governments to act.