Highlights
- VideoThe climate crisis is also a human rights crisis, affecting a wide range of rights, exposing global inequality and social injustice. This FRF theme tackles topics such as climate change and human rights, business responsibility, and rethinking wealth distribution together with Leena Ylä-Mononen, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, Gunther Beger, Managing Director for SDG Innovation at UNIDO, Elena Kountouri Tapiero, Regional Representative for Europe at OHCHR, among others.
- Report / Paper / Summary15January2025Climate change affects the daily lives of everyone in the EU and has significant environmental, economic, social and health impacts. To tackle this, the European Green Deal was adopted in 2019. This report examines the Green Deal from a fundamental rights perspective, with the aim of protecting the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all. It highlights the lack of fundamental rights in EU climate policy and the need to incorporate these rights into future legislation. It also considers how applying a human-rights-based approach to climate policy could support a fair and inclusive transition.