Inattention to climate change and human rights linked

Inattention to climate change and its link to human rights surfaced briefly at a public forum in Euroa on Saturday.

The matter was really only mentioned in passing and although there was a noted bias in the group’s make-up, there appeared consensus that governments failing to actively respond to climate change were abdicating their human rights responsibilities.

The sense of a direct link between human rights and a move to mitigate the cause of climate change is not uncommon and the Climate Action Network reports on a call to have human rights included in any future climate agreement.

The story - “NGO Submission to the ADP Calling for Human Rights Protections in the 2015 Agreement, 7 February 2015” – tells of the call.

Saturday’s meeting at Euroa, organized by Strathbogie Voices and the Euroa Environmental Group, featured presentations by University of Melbourne climate scientist, Professor David Karoly. It attracted more than 120 people.