His report to the UN human rights council (HRC) concludes: “Human rights might not survive the coming upheaval.”The report also condemns Donald Trump for “actively silencing” climate science, and criticises the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, for promising to open up the Amazon rainforest to mining. Instead of 'climate change', the preferred terms are 'climate emergency, crisis or breakdown' and 'global heating' is favoured over 'global warming'. Ashfaq Khalfan at Amnesty International said: “Climate change is a human rights issue precisely because of the impact it’s having on people. The primary obligation to protect people from human rights harms lies with states. “We need everybody to live up to their responsibilities to act on climate change and protect human rights,” he said.

Source: The Guardian June 25, 2019 07:52 UTC