New York — From worsening hunger and migration to greater loss of lives and property to wild weather, climate change is driving violations of human rights - and focusing on that may be a key way to win faster climate action, rights experts said Wednesday.
"Most of the states that are rather reticent to move on climate change have long accepted the full range of human rights obligations," said Philip Alston, chairman of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University.
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