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A Note From Climate Rights International’s Founder and Executive Director

The right to life. The right to a healthy environment, clean air and water, land to live on, and sustainable livelihoods. The survival of one’s community.

This is what is at stake for people living on the frontlines of climate change.

While there is now a broad consensus that climate change is the planet’s greatest existential threat, less well recognized is that it is already a human rights emergency.

Climate change is taking an increasingly devastating toll on individuals and communities around the world, particularly in the Global South. Those least responsible for climate change are bearing the greatest burden, facing devastating violations of their rights. The climate crisis is not only exacerbating already enormous inequalities, it is threatening the very survival of many communities and cultures. 

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“When we take care of the land, we take care of us. If we destroy this land, we destroy ourselves.”
Chief Jackie ThomasSaik’uz First Nation
“Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.”
Nicolas SternChair of the Grantham Research Institute
“We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.”
António GuterresU.N. Secretary-General
“Activism works. So what I’m telling you to do now is to act. Because no one is too small to make a difference.”
Greta ThunbergClimate Activist
“The world is reaching the tipping point beyond which climate change may become irreversible. If this happens, we risk denying present and future generations the right to a healthy and sustainable planet – the whole of humanity stands to lose.”
Kofi AnnanU.N. Secretary-General, 1997-2006
“Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.“
Desmond TutuNobel Peace Prize laureate
“Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Joni MitchellSinger-Songwriter
“We’re fighting for soil, land, food, trees, water, birds. We’re fighting for life.”
Gregorio MirabalIndigenous leader and coordinator of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)
“Indigenous people, young people should be the leaders of climate actions, not victims of climate policies.”
Archana SorengMember of the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change and climate activist from India
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Where did all the blue skies go? Poison is the wind that blows, from the north and south and east; Woah mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be; Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas, fish full of mercury.”
Marvin GayeSinger-Songwriter
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