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COP21 SERIES: Will developed countries recognize their right-to-health obligations in Paris?
COP21 begins November 30th
Alison Blaiklock
After five days of slow, intense and often rocky negotiations in Bonn, a draft text was finally agreed. This text will form the basis of the Conference of Parties (COP21) negotiations at the UN Climate…
COP21 SERIES: Human Rights in the Paris Agreement—A Key Opportunity to Protect Health and the Rights of Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
COP21 begins November 30th
Abby Rubinson
Climate change has serious consequences for human rights and health. As glaciers melt and sea levels rise, and as droughts, floods and storms grow more frequent and extreme, the rights to health, life, food,…
COP21: The Impact of Climate Change on the World’s Marginalized Populations: Turkana County, Kenya
Women and children on the arid plains at the feet of the Mogila mountains in Turkana, northern Kenya. (Credit: IRIN/Gwenn Dubourthoumieu)
Katharina Rall, Brooke Guven, and Joseph J. Amon
As delegates converge on Paris in November for the UN Climate…
COP21 SERIES: Designers Should Be Health Advocates at the Paris Negotiations
Bosco Verticale, Milan (image credit Luca Nebuloni)
Adele Houghton
Human health is taking a front seat in the run up to the international climate change negotiations (COP21) in Paris in November/December, as evidenced by two recent publications:…
COP21 SERIES: Tackling Climate Change is Great for Global Health
Cycling in New Zealand would reduce GHG emissions and promote health (image credit Sam Saunders)
Gay Keating
Human rights are universal, and greenhouse gasses (ghg) and climate change are global. However, most of the changes needed to reduce ghg…
COP21 SERIES: Climate Change Contributes To Collective Violence
The start of the civil war in Syria may have been associated with climate change (image credit Freedom Syria)
Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
Climate change causes or contributes to many adverse environmental consequences, including global…
COP21 SERIES Reshaping the landscape: The geography of human rights, climate change, and disasters
Healthy Island communities in PNG get running water
Jean Carmalt
When leaders gather in Paris to discuss serious measures to address climate change this December, they will be surrounded by a city and region that, in recent decades, has spent its…
COP21 SERIES A symbiotic relationship: Sustainable Development Goals and COP21
Cecilia Sorensen and Jay Lemery
Irrefutable evidence demonstrates that human health depends on environmental health and that the protection of human rights and strict environmental standards are mutually reinforcing.1 By attempting to address root…
COP21 SERIES: Calling for blogs on climate change and the right to health
Climate change threatens the health of all people and the planet with its most severe effects on people who already struggle to enjoy their human rights.
At the end of November world leaders will meet in Paris at the UN Climate Conference (COP21). The…
Will Pharma Overreach in the TPPA Create A Movement for Access to Medicines?
TPPA protests in Auckland, New Zealand (photo courtesy of Rhys Jones)
Fran Quigley
Earlier this month, representatives of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) parties announced they had concluded five years of negotiations by agreeing to…