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US joins UN resolution to protect human rights from climate change2

Type
Literature
Publication
Duyck, S. 2017. US joins UN resolution to protect human rights from climate change. Climate Home.

Year Published
2017
Organization
NGO
Description

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution that calls for the protection of human rights from the impacts of climate change, with the support of the US. The US said climate change had “a range of implications for the effective enjoyment of human rights”, in a departure from recent diplomacy and Trump’s rhetoric.

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