Just Transition and Human Rights: Key Issues for COP30 | HRC60 Side Event

Climate change poses a profound threat to human rights, disproportionately affects vulnerable populations—threatening their access to clean water, food, health, and shelter, and even their right to life and culture identity. Recognizing this, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) continues to address the adverse impacts of climate change for the enjoyment of human rights. One of the key climate change themes currently addressed is the intersection between Just Transition and Human Rights. The UN Secretary General presented a synthesis report on “Just Transition and human rights” to the 60^th session of the HRC. The report aims to identify the opportunities, best practices, actionable solutions, challenges and barriers relevant to a just transition and the full realization of human rights for all people. It arrives at a pivotal moment, in preparation toward the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), set to take place November 2025, in Belém, Brazil.

Speakers:

• Brother Rodrigo Péret, OFM, Franciscans International
• Elena Cedillo, Lutheran World Federation
• Benjamin Schachter, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Lien Vandamme, Center for International Environmental Law

Moderator: Yves Ladore, Earthjustice

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