SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change / Email: [email protected]

[SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera @SRclimatechange]

My expectations for #COP30 on @BBC

📖based on reports on #Defossilization https://t.co/ye4uklEIoK & #Energy #JustTransition & #HumanRights https://t.co/bKYMb38dfP

🔗reference to #truth at COP from @guardian interview https://t.co/jPL7bnXb0m by Nina Lakhani

[SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera @SRclimatechange]

I'll be visiting #Mozambique from 21 Sept to 2 Oct

🔎 If you have information or have conducted research in Mozambique on #HumanRights & #ClimateChange, please share your findings by mid August: https://t.co/4U35lN929l

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

UN @SRclimatechange Elisa Morgera presented her report to the Council & was present in various #HRC62 events addressing:

🔸 climate change & food systems
🔸 energy transition
🔸 future generations
🔸 Sumauma Tree pledge
🔸 climate resilience in SIDS

▶️ https://t.co/YwaBbePnPs

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👋Have you missed the hearing during our Permanent group on the UNFCCC COP on:

🔴the role of civil society at the climate COPs
🟠how to reform the UNFCCC processes
🟡protection of human rights & legal obligations to protect the climate system?

Watch the recording! Link below⬇️

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👋SAVE THE DATE

Join us for a debate on Reforming climate governance in the light of recent international judicial decisions

🗓️ When? 7 July, 9:30-13:00 CET

📍 Where? Online

🗣️ With speakers from the UN🇺🇳, academia, civil society...

⬇️ Link for more info and webstream below

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

Transforming food systems key to protecting climate and #humanrights, says @SRclimatechange @UN_HRC. “States must prevent foreseeable harm, effectively regulate harmful activities and ensure accountability for corporate actors.” #HRC62

https://t.co/8p59560o5N

[SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera @SRclimatechange]

⏱️ Just starting now! Join us online if you can at https://t.co/Fx6Tcqka2H

#LCAW2026 #Food #Health #ClimateChange #HumanRights

🗞️https://t.co/iyWUhk7Zcb
📘https://t.co/1jQHr7Wmh9

[SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera @SRclimatechange]

New findings & recommendations on #ClimateChange #Food systems #HumanRights #FossilFuels #Methane in my report to @UN_HRC https://t.co/1jQHr7Wmh9

#Defossilization for #Food #Health #ClimateJustice for all

🗞️https://t.co/iyWUhk7Zcb

#LCAW2026 @UNHumanRights @UN_SPExperts

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Methane drives around 1/3 of global warming and is 80 times more powerful than CO2. But aggressive cuts could deliver visible temperature benefits within a generation.

That's why I’m launching a global call to cut methane emissions – in waste, agriculture & fossil fuels. This includes setting a new global standard for the oil & gas sector: near-zero methane emissions across the value chain.

[SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera @SRclimatechange]

And #FossilFuels and the #ClimateCrisis are deeply linked to a growing #Food and #Health crisis

Let us focus on the benefits of #Defossilization for #energy #food #health #HumanRights

🗞️https://t.co/iyWUhk7Zcb
📘https://t.co/1jQHr7Wmh9

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The climate crisis & the energy crisis may seem separate, but they share the same destructive origin:

Fossil fuels.

And they demand the same answer: A fast, fair transition to clean energy & a surge in adaptation, resilience & climate justice for those already facing climate harm.

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@ciel_tweets @FIANista @SRclimatechange @SRtoxics @UNUCPR @BDPM_Geneva International human rights expert Miloon Kothari stresses that the #MaastrichtPrinciples are anchored in universality & equal dignity of all, while the concept of intergenerational equity is linked with several human rights norms including the right to #HealthyEnvironment.

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@ciel_tweets @FIANista @SRclimatechange @SRtoxics @UNUCPR @BDPM_Geneva Providing examples of how future generations have been represented in policies, Daouia Chalali of @UNUCPR stresses that the #SummitOfTheFuture declaration advanced the protection of future generations but failed to anchor its content in the rights & duties framework.

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@ciel_tweets @FIANista @SRclimatechange @SRtoxics @UNUCPR @BDPM_Geneva Elisabeth Jost of @FIANista Austria stresses the importance of the Maastricht Principles as a reference framework to protect the rights of #FutureGenerations, clearly specifying the obligations of state and non-state actors & holding those violating these rights accountable.

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@ciel_tweets @FIANista @SRclimatechange @SRtoxics @UNUCPR @BDPM_Geneva Moderating the event, Sébastien Duyck of @ciel_tweets underscores the importance of discussing intergenerational rights against the backdrop of many intergovernmental negotiations, and of advancing the right of #FutureGenerations in different spaces.

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@SRclimatechange @UNEP @SGI_OUNA @ACTAlliance @UNOP_Dominicans @FranciscansIntl @Oikoumene @Earthjustice @FIANista Sounding the alarm on the increasing consolidation of power of agrifood companies and landholders & precarity of a fossil-dependent food system, Francesca Mingrone of @ciel_tweets highlights its toxic impacts while creating greater dependency on fossil fuels.

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@SRclimatechange @UNEP @SGI_OUNA @ACTAlliance @UNOP_Dominicans @FranciscansIntl @Oikoumene Highlighting the growing entanglement of the agrifood-petrochemical agri-food, petrochemical, and fossil fuel industries, Yves Lador of @Earthjustice endorses the call to "redefine the priorities of climate action", and asks @SRclimatechange which can be prioritized.

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@SRclimatechange @UNEP Guided by their commitment to climate justice, ethics and the dignity of all life, Flore Ghetti for Geneva Interfaith Forum, calls on all States to implement recommendations: phase out subsidies, protect rights of Indigenous Peoples & peasants, & to leave no one behind,

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@SRclimatechange Reflecting on the importance of implementation, Angela Kariuki highlights @UNEP's commitment to work with States and stakeholders to strengthen legal frameworks that can promote decarbonization, defossilization & detoxification of food systems, incl. through Montevideo Programme.

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

"Global food systems are a major driver of climate change," @SRclimatechange Elisa Morgera told the @UN Human Rights Council.

Transforming food systems should be prioritized as a key climate action to protect everyone's right to health, she said.

#HRC62

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

Paradoxes run deeper, underlines UN @SRclimatechange, as we have have witnessed a global fuel crisis that has led to exacerbated inequalities everywhere, undermining those most affected & least responsible for it, while fossil fuel & associated businesses made record profits.

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

@SRclimatechange Focusing on the report, UN @SRclimatechange shares examples not sufficiently discussed:
- Climate impact of nitrogen fertilizers exceeds that of commercial aviation
- Emissions of a billion tons of #FoodWaste per year generate emissions equal to the world's third largest emitter.

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

@SRclimatechange UN @SRclimatechange also puts a spotlight on the "the global reach of toxic pollution across food systems & of ultra-processed foods", causing a combined health epidemic of obesity, hunger, malnutrition & NCDs, with disporportionate impacts on children's health and development.