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“Climate change is plunging millions of people into famine. It destroys hopes, opportunities, homes and lives,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Monday.
Posted on 09/11/2023 11:06 am Updated on 09/11/2023 11:32 am
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A man during an evacuation during the fires in Greece, August 23, 2023 in Maritsa. (AYHAN MEHMET / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)
A new emergency call from the United Nations. “The dystopian future is already here,” the UN human rights chief declared on Monday, September 11, warning of global warming leading to fires, floods and devastating heatwaves.
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“Climate change is plunging millions of people into famine. It destroys hopes, opportunities, homes and lives. In recent months, urgent warnings around the world have repeatedly become a deadly reality,” lamented Volker Türk at the opening of the 54th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva (Switzerland).
“Urgent need for action”
“We don’t need any more warnings. We must act urgently now. And we know what needs to be done. The real question is: What’s stopping us?” he said. His alarm follows the G20’s failure to call for a phase-out of fossil fuels this weekend, contrary to the hopes of several observers.
As climate change increases population movements, the High Commissioner for Human Rights also denounced “indifference” to the tragedy of migrants dying on migration routes. “I am shocked at the nonchalance of the more than 2,300 people who have been declared dead or missing in the Mediterranean this year,” including more than 600 in a single shipwreck off the coast of Greece in June.
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