INGOs Side-event at the Council of Europe - 29 September 2015

62 days to the Summit in Paris, on behalf of the Conference of INGOs, Anne-Marie Chavanon, Chair of the Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Democracy Committee invites governmental and nongovernmental actors to consider the crucial issue of the future treaty and the impact of climate change on human rights
An ambitious agreement in the final round of climate negotiations was at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg has been advocated by Lord Prescott, Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Energy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and former negotiator for Europe of the Kyoto Accords, Sir Alan Meale parliamentarian from UK, former president of the PACE Committee on Sustainable development, personally committed to defending the right to a healthy environment, Edith Wenger, representative of the European Environmental Bureau, who initiated the working group "Climate and Human Rights" within the Conference of INGOs, Yves Hauss climatologist, Merete Bjerregaard, expert from the Directorate of Human Rights at the Council of Europe, Dina Ionesco, Director, Environment and Migration Division of the International Organisation for Migration, and Karl Donert, Vice-President of the Committee, on Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges and Head of the Working Group on "Climate and Human Rights" of the Conference of INGOs at the Council of Europe
An ambitious agreement in the final round of climate negotiations was at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg has been advocated by Lord Prescott, Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Energy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and former negotiator for Europe of the Kyoto Accords, Sir Alan Meale parliamentarian from UK, former president of the PACE Committee on Sustainable development, personally committed to defending the right to a healthy environment, Edith Wenger, representative of the European Environmental Bureau, who initiated the working group "Climate and Human Rights" within the Conference of INGOs, Yves Hauss climatologist, Merete Bjerregaard, expert from the Directorate of Human Rights at the Council of Europe, Dina Ionesco, Director, Environment and Migration Division of the International Organisation for Migration, and Karl Donert, Vice-President of the Committee, on Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges and Head of the Working Group on "Climate and Human Rights" of the Conference of INGOs at the Council of Europe