States must take responsibility for preventing negative impact of climate change on human rights

Climate change negatively affects human rights, and states should take responsibility for preventing this, UN Special Rapporteur of Climate Change Elisa Morgera said on November 11 in Baku at a press conference on climate issues, damage compensation, and human rights within COP29, Report informs.

According to her, recent studies have shown how severely climate change has impacted people, with children, women, and people with disabilities being the most vulnerable.

"We have a significant amount of evidence collected by my colleagues through special US procedures. They really show that even where we didn't imagine such consequences of climate change for human rights and climate action measures, including in the context of gender violence, modern forms of slavery, human trafficking - this is now something predictable. And whenever negative impacts on human rights can be foreseen, states must make a clear commitment to prevent this," she said.