The derisory new climate finance target agreed at the close of COP29 in Azerbaijan will put the human rights of billions of people at risk and perpetuate global inequalities, Amnesty International said today. Following days of protracted and opaque negotiations in Baku, the conference ended yesterday with an agreement by high-income countries to mobilize USD300…
Reacting to this morning’s release of several draft decision texts at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Climate Justice Advisor, said: “One of COP29’s top priorities was to secure an agreement on the provision of climate finance to the countries and communities on the frontlines of climate change. The draft text on the…
Aaliyah Haji, 33* ‘The floods destroyed our community in every way’ I come from the town of Dinsoor, in Somalia. Life as a farmer there was always challenging, but drought made it nearly impossible. For years, I planted maize, beans, and sesame, once harvesting six to seven sacks of food. That changed when the drought…
Responding to a Global Witness investigation that appears to show the chief executive of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, using his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Programme Director for Climate Justice said: “It comes as no surprise that a senior official from Azerbaijan’s COP29 team is…
Last year, we participated in the Amnesty International Delegation at COP28, joining protests with allied human rights organizations and engaging with other international human rights activists. Notably, the conference purported to mark the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era. It also called on countries to triple their renewable energy capacity and double…
Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making and commit to massively scaling up needs-based climate financing and a full, fast, fair, and funded phase-out of fossil fuels across all sectors, said Amnesty International ahead of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan.…
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) opens next week in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The summit takes place between 11 and 22 November, and decisions made there will impact all of us. To date, the international community has failed to rein in the deadly activities of the fossil fuel industry, which continues…
With millions of people already displaced by climate change disasters in Africa, the richer countries most responsible for global warming must agree at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan to fully pay for the catastrophic loss of homes and damage to livelihoods taking place across the continent, Amnesty International said. They must also fully…
Severe flooding in Pakistan’s Sindh province has left thousands of people suffering from disease and food insecurity amid government inaction, Amnesty International said. Following major flooding in August 2024, more than 140,000 people were displaced with many now living in tents. Months later, affected communities are still struggling with health risks and lost livelihoods compounded…
Climate change is increasingly driving violations of the right to life and the right to health. In fact, climate change has been called “the greatest global health threat facing the world in the 21st century”. How does climate change undermine the right to health? Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, flooding, droughts, wildfires and tropical cyclones,…