Categoria: Diritto umano al clima

In 2007, the amount of methane in the atmosphere (CH4) began to rise after a 7-year period of near-zero growth (1). Recent research shows that a second step change occurred in 2014 (2). From 2014 to at least the end of 2018, the amount of CH4 in the atmosphere increased at nearly double the rate observed since...

A new project by the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and the InterAcademy Partnership Link: https://easac.eu/news/details/climate-change-and-health0/

Obesity is still increasing in prevalence in almost all countries and is an important risk factor for poor health and mortality. The current approach to obesity prevention is failing despite many piecemeal efforts, recommendations, and calls to action. Link: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/global-syndemic

La Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación convalidó hoy la ley de preservación de los glaciares, al rechazar el pedido de inconstitucionalidad de la misma realizado por Barrick Gold y Minera Argentina Gold. Link: https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/corte-fallo-contra-barrick-gold-convalidar-ley-glaciares.phtml

Successive climate conferences have attempted to align states against an unprecedented global threat whose dramatic contours are becoming clearer by the day. However our economic, political, and social systems, down to our everyday routines, are currently powered in ways that are incompatible with climatic stability. Link: https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/author/climate-change-and-human-rights

This article argues that climate change presents a serious challenge to constitutional rights of Indians; rights that can only be taken away by the State and by proper legal procedure. Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1463556

Wellbeing falters without sound mental health. Scholars have recently indicated that the impacts of climate change are likely to undermine mental health through a variety of direct and indirect mechanisms. Link: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/43/10953

Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, and survival via weather extremes and climatic impacts on food yields, fresh water, infectious diseases, conflict, and displacement. Paradoxically, these risks to health are neither widely nor fully recognized. Link: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/13/4730.short

Nella Carta ONU del 1945 e nella Convenzione CEDU del 1950 non ci sono accenni al diritto dell’uomo all’ambiente, né alcun riferimento a nozioni di “ambiente” perché all’epoca l’esigenza di inserire questo tema nel catalogo dei diritti non era sentita. Una prima affermazione in tal senso risale alla Conferenza di Stoccolma (1972) sull’ambiente umano, in cui viene...