{"id":115311,"date":"2023-07-04T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-rights-chief-dont-leave-the-climate-crisis-for-our-children-to-fix\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:10:19","slug":"un-rights-chief-dont-leave-the-climate-crisis-for-our-children-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/un-rights-chief-dont-leave-the-climate-crisis-for-our-children-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"UN rights chief: \u2018Don\u2019t leave the climate crisis for our children to fix\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115311\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nDrought has ravaged land in southern Ethiopia and is the main cause of livestock deaths. Global heating is a burning human rights issue, as extreme weather and climate disasters threaten humanity\u2019s universal right to food, UN rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk said on Monday. \u201cWe must not leave this for our children to fix \u2013 no matter how inspiring their activism,\u201d he told the Human Rights Council, advocating for a \u201cjust transition\u201d to a green economy. \u201cI ask every member of this Council to take this clear message out of the Palais des Nations and into every aspect of their work,\u201d he said, stressing that it was today\u2019s leaders who had the responsibility to take climate action.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. T\u00fcrk warned that on the world\u2019s current trajectory, \u201cour air, our food, our water, and human life itself would be unrecognizable\u201d, with an average temperature increase by the end of the century soaring to 3\u00b0C, well above the 1.5\u00b0C limit, as outlined in the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change. He deplored that despite all the alarm bells going off, leaders were still not acting with the determination required and getting \u201cstuck in the short term\u201d. \u201cIf this is not a human rights issue, what is?\u201d, he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner underscored that the right to food was \u201ccomprehensively threatened\u201d by climate change and recalled that there had been a 134 per cent increase in climate-fuelled, flood-related disasters since the turn of the century. Not only do extreme weather events and disasters destroy ecosystems and farmers\u2019 livelihoods, but their fast and relentless repetition makes it impossible for communities to rebuild and support themselves, he said.<\/p>\n<p>With millions going hungry in countries which contributed \u201cnext to nothing\u201d to the industrial processes which are \u201ckilling our environment and violating rights\u201d, Mr. T\u00fcrk stressed the urgency of ending fossil fuel subsidies, transforming international development and financing institutions into \u201cengines of climate action\u201d, and making this November\u2019s COP28 conference a \u201cdecisive game-changer\u201d. He also called for good governance to ensure that climate funds go to the most affected people and pointed to climate litigation as a way of holding businesses and Governments accountable in court.<\/p>\n<p>The UN rights chief said that humanity must not deliver a \u201cfuture of hunger and suffering\u201d to the next generations, and insisted that, equipped with the most powerful technological tools in history, \u201cwe have the capacity to change the status quo\u201d. \u201cThere is still time to act, but that time is now,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/07\/1138297\">The UN<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/un-rights-chief-dont-leave-the-climate-crisis-for-our-children-to-fix\/\">UN rights chief: \u2018Don\u2019t leave the climate crisis for our children to fix\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1300,612,425,402,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-115311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-climate","tag-crisis","tag-un","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}