CLIMATE ACTION. Demonstrators demand urgent action on the climate crisis from world leaders attending the COP25 summit, in Madrid, Spain on December 6, 2019. Photo by Oscar del Pozo/AFP
Cadiz also said that"we must include in the conversation the role that state-owned carbon majors play." He said, though, that international human rights law may"provide a standard" for local courts when pursuing cases, if they take up the CHR's findings. The CHR recommended governments to adopt legislation to ensure access to justice for affected communities. He said states must"fulfill their duty under international human rights law [and] create laws and the proper regulatory environment whereby corporations can be held legally accountable for their behavior."
A 2015 petition by climate activists called for an investigation into the complicity of big companies in human rights violations as a result of climate change.read,"The real life pain and agony of losing loved ones, homes, farms – almost everything – during strong typhoons, droughts, and other weather extremes, as well as the everyday struggle to live, to be safe, and to be able to cope with the adverse, slow onset impacts of climate change, are beyond numbers and words.
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