As we approach the 21st Conference of Parties to the Climate Convention (COP 21) to be hosted by France in 2015, the international NGO members of the committe on Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges adopted on 25 June 2014, a position unanimously defended in plenary by all NGOs.
Both speakers provided expertise of the highest level:
Both speakers provided expertise of the highest level:
- Serge LEPELTIER, former French Minister of the Environment, former ambassador in charge of negotiations on climate change for France, President of the Academie de l'eau (Academy of Water)r
- Sébastien DUYCK, a researcher at the University of Lapland (Finland), a specialist in environmental law, co-head of the working group "Climate Change and Human Rights of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Edith WENGER, Head of the Working group "Climate Change and Human Rights" gathering 24 international NGOs, noted that this position paper is the result of a three year work and the continuation of the Committee concern for sustainability issues. She cited related documents already adopted:
- the joint Declaration signed with the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of local and Regional Authorities: "Working together for biodiversity, the preservation of natural areas and the fight against climate change" in April 2010
- the Declaration "climate Change and Biodiversity" in October 2010 at the Summits in Nagoya Biodiversity and Cancun Climate
- the Declaration "The Future we Want", on the occasion of the Conference of UN Rio +20 in May 2012,
- the Declaration "Climate Change and Human Rights" passed at the UN on the occasion of the Conference of the Parties to the climate Convention meeting in Warsaw in November 2013
Edith WENGER, Head of the Climate Change and Human Rights Working group, Sebastien DUYCK, Searcher, Serge LEPELTIER, President of the Academie de l'Eau, Anne-Marie CHAVANON, Chair
Fundamental rights: the effects of climate change affect
the right to life,
the right to dignity and a decent life,
the right to safety, health, food and water,
the right to protection of property
the right to a nationality and freedom of movement,
Edith Wenger said that the document is intended as an information base, a tool to intervene in the many preparatory meetings to the new Treaty of Paris, engaging NGOs support the recommendations.
the right to life,
the right to dignity and a decent life,
the right to safety, health, food and water,
the right to protection of property
the right to a nationality and freedom of movement,
Edith Wenger said that the document is intended as an information base, a tool to intervene in the many preparatory meetings to the new Treaty of Paris, engaging NGOs support the recommendations.
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