Climate Change and Human Rights

According to the United Nations, climate change is any change in the Earth's temperatures or climate patterns.

Climate change is therefore a major challenge currently facing the international community.

When there is a significant meteorological phenomenon that has changed its natural pattern, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, or high or low temperatures worldwide, people's rights are affected: rights such as the right to life, the right to health, the right to food, and the right to housing are mainly the rights that are violated in the event of a significant climatic event.

Thus, depending on the weather phenomenon, people's basic rights can be violated, including the right to education and work, among other rights.

That is why the protection of human rights in the face of these weather phenomena is important. International legal frameworks such as the Paris Agreement allow countries to take coordinated international action, in which, through climate diplomacy, the protection of the human rights of those affected is generated.

Climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation are concepts covered by the international legal framework on the subject. However, the protection of human rights in the face of climate change must also be a priority and an ethical and legal responsibility within the international legal framework.