KATOWICE, Poland — The exclusion of human rights from the draft implementing guidelines of the Paris Agreement would put vulnerable sectors in more peril, rights experts and environmental campaigners have warned. “Human rights have to be at the center of the agreement,” she said at a press briefing. “Human rights are here as guidance,” she said. Protest marchThousands of activists from across the globe poured into the streets of Katowice, a city built on coal mining, on Saturday afternoon to demand climate justice outside the convention halls. Survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan), which flattened the Visayas in 2013, including activists Joanna Sustento and Saño’s younger brother, AG, also marched to call for climate justice.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 09, 2018 23:15 UTC