COP30 Climate Change Conference in Brazil – essential need-to-knows for human rights

The next United Nations annual climate conference, COP30, will take place in Belém, Brazil between 10 and 21 November 2025. It will bring together 198 states and other parties (for example, the European Union) to address the global threat posed by climate change. A preparatory meeting will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 16 to 26 June 2025, where negotiations will begin on commitments to be adopted at COP30. In the context of the upcoming meeting in Bonn, this document provides an overview of Amnesty International’s analysis of key human rights and climate justice issues. This document accompanies Amnesty International’s pre-COP30 advocacy briefing, which provides a full set of our recommendations to the parties to the UN FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to help them put human rights front and centre of all climate action and decision making at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Weiterlesen

Fire in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon: girls and young women fighting for climate justice

At night in the Ecuadorian Amazon, huge flames light up the darkness. Flames from the gas flares that tower over the oil wells and that, far from being a sign of progress, are living scars on the green lungs of our planet. Not only do they burn natural gas, needlessly wasting a non-renewable resource, but they also pollute the air, destroy biodiversity and threaten the lives and rights of nearby communities. Here, environmental justice has been a distant dream for over 57 years, while human rights burn with the gas. Weiterlesen

Honduras: Planned environmental law jeopardizes human rights

The parliament of Honduras is about to pass a law that would simplify the granting of environmental permits without taking human rights into account in the text. The last remaining discussion in plenary could take place in the next few days. Parliament must refrain from passing a law that could jeopardize the rights to a healthy environment, to information and to participation in public affairs. Weiterlesen

Human Rights in the Life Cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals

Amnesty International welcomes the important initiative taken by the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change to report on the positive and negative human rights impacts of renewable energy development, including the extraction and re-use of critical minerals.
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