Briefing Note Series on Human Rights & Climate Change (2019)

This report from the June 2019 climate negotiations in Bonn sought to provide a short 10,000-foot assessment of the climate talks, complemented by a more detailed description of outcomes related to key agenda items that are more particularly relevant from the perspective of human rights and the mapping of upcoming submissions opportunities.

The report addresses briefly the following issues: access to information and public participation, social safeguards in the context of carbon trading mechanisms under the Paris Agreement, Loss and Damage, Agriculture, and Gender. Relevant developments related to the work of the following bodies is also briefly in the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform, the Paris Committee on Capacity Building and the Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures.

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