We don’t always see the intersectionality between climate change and the status of human rights, but seeing as climate change threatens to undermine all our worldly systems, they are intrinsically connected in a relationship that is only deepening as we go forward. If we continue to push climate change under the rug, it will end up becoming the ultimate human rights violation, stripping the world of its right to life.
When world leaders arrived in Glasgow for COP26 last November, they knew their goal: keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius at all costs. The current commitment to climate change is more ambitious than ever. But now that the dust has settled and executives have left Scotland, what's next?