For immediate release: The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), a major network of international human rights scholars, has issued around the world in a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change (The Declaration) ahead of the Paris Climate Summit beginning on 30 November. The Declaration outlines a crucial shift in the way that states should respond to climate change. The Declaration is a response to the unsustainable status quo. Combining new thinking and existing international human rights law, the Declaration presents an alternative formulation of rights that foregrounds human rights while simultaneously protecting the rights of non-human persons and living systems from climate harms.
The GNHRE is a network of multidisciplinary scholars from around the world, dedicated to tackling human and environmental challenges, including climate change. The group includes numerous world- renowned environmental-human rights scholars and drafted the Declaration as a clarion call to governments to address the human rights implications of climate change. To view the Declaration, please visit: http://gnhre.org/gnhre-draft-declaration/ To endorse this Declaration publicly or to suggest amendment, please contact Kirsten Davies, who is collating a list of endorsers and suggested amendments. Her email is: [email protected] Best, Josh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Gellers, PhD, LEED Green Associate Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Admin Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project University of North Florida 1 UNF Drive Jacksonville, FL 32224 (e): [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (p): 904.620.2849 (t): @JoshGellers (w): www.joshgellers.com Enviro Rights Map Project: www.envirorightsmap.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
