The impact of climate change on human rights

Abstract EN

Today, the world is witnessing many unprecedented and recurring climate crises, such as powerful and destructive hurricanes, the increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, the increase in global temperatures due to gas emissions, and the repercussions of global warming resulting from human activity, causing harmful environmental effects, such as droughts and floods.

sea level rise, heat waves, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.

in this regard, climate change threatens not only human life, but also the natural environment as a whole, affecting the rights of countless people and living beings, causing the outbreak of violent and armed conflicts and conflicts in certain areas due to lack of resources, and threatening the survival and continuity of the natural environment and human rights in our current time.