News Headline
'Climate Change Single Greatest Challenge Of Our Era': UNHRC Chief
Source
Republic World
Publication Date
2021-09-14
UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said at the opening session of the 48th Human Rights Council that climate crisis is the single greatest challenge to human rights in the present era. She urged global economies to concentrate on the rebuilding of a "greener post-pandemic world." Bachelet highlighted the amplifiers of climate change and interlinked it with global conflicts, structural inequalities and people pushed into vulnerable situations.