OHCHR and climate change

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OHCHR and climate change

Issues in focus

2025

Open Letter from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on priorities for human rights-based climate action at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
31 October 2025

Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
04-07 June 2025

2024

Open Letter from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on human rights priorities for the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
6 December 2024

Open Letter from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on priorities for human rights-based climate action at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
6 November 2024

2022

Open letter on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to Permanent Missions in New York and Geneva
2 December 2022

UNFCCC COP27 letter to Permanent Missions in New York and Geneva
2 November 2022

UNFCCC SB56 side event: Advancing a human rights-based approach to climate finance
15 June 2022

Stockholm+50 side event: Coming together for healthy people and a healthy planet: the UN system’s commitment to advancing the human right to a healthy environment
2 June 2022

UNCCD COP15 side event: Advancing a human rights-based approach to desertification and land degradation
12 May 2022

CSW66 virtual side event on Human rights and gender equality in the context of climate change, the environment and disaster risk reduction
22 March 2022

High-level event on Environmental Human Rights Defenders
1 March 2022

2021

Human Rights Council panel discussion on the human rights of older persons in the context of climate change
30 June 2021

Joint statement of United Nations entities on the right to healthy environment
8 March 2021

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