Information materials

OHCHR developed a series of information materials to raise awareness of the human rights impacts of climate change and environmental harms. The materials highlight OHCHR’s key messages and recommendations regarding human rights, climate change, the environment, and related issues, drawing in part from OHCHR’s analytical studies. Selected materials were developed with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Key message documents

Key Messages on human rights and climate change	Key Messages on human rights, climate change and business [العربية] [中文] [English] [Français] [Русский] [Español]	Key Messages on human rights, the environment and COVID-19 [العربية] [中文] [English] [Français] [Русский] [Español] [Portuguese Português]
Key Messages on human rights, climate change and migration [العربية] [中文] [English] [Français] [Русский] [Español]	Key Messages on human rights and biodiversity [العربية] [中文] [English] [Français] [Русский] [Español]	Key Messages on human rights and hazardous substances [العربية] [中文] [English] [Français] [Русский] [Español]
Key Messages on human rights, the environment, and gender equality [العربية] [English] [Français] [Español]	Key Messages on environmentally sound technology and the right to development: realizing human rights for sustainable development (preliminary version for comment)	Key Messages on renewable energy and the right to development: realizing human rights for sustainable development (preliminary version for comment)
Advancing a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Global Biodiversity Framework	Key Messages on advancing a human rights-based approach to desertification, land degradation and drought	Advancing the right to a healthy environment in the Amazon rainforest (advanced version) [Español only]
Key Messages on Human Rights and Loss and Damage	Key Messages on human rights and Just Transition

Briefing notes

Climate Change: Protecting the rights of people with disabilities [English] [Español]	Climate Change: Protecting the rights of children [English] [Español]	Climate Change: Protecting the rights of migrants
Climate Change: Protecting the rights of women	Climate Change: Protecting people’s right to health	Climate Change: Protecting the rights of older persons
Human Rights implications of COVID-19 response measures in the context of climate change	Key human rights considerations for the negotiations to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution	What is the Right to a Healthy Environment? [English] [Español]
OHCHR contribution to INC 2: elements towards an international legally binding instrument on plastics	OHCHR submission to the OEWG 1.2 on a science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution	Key human rights considerations on the impact of seabed mining [English] [Español]
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) submission on essential elements for a possible ICCM5 High-level Declaration (HLD) on the sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020	OHCHR contribution to INC 3 (plastics)	Foundational research document for OHCHR’s policy brief on Human Rights implications of Covid-19 response measures in the context of climate change

Guidance

Guidance note for UN Resident Coordinators and Country teams on Environmental Human Rights Defenders

Infographics

	- Infographic 1 - Climate change affects children’s rights - Infographic 2 - How climate change affects children’s rights - Infographic 3 - Addressing the effects of climate change on children’s rights
	- Infographic 1 - Climate change affects women’s rights   - Infographic 2 - How climate change affects women’s rights  - Infographic 3 - Addressing the effects of climate change on women’s rights
	- Infographic 1 - Climate change affects people’s right to health - Infographic 2 - How climate change affects people’s right to health - Infographic 3 - Addressing the effects of climate change on people’s right to health
	- Infographic 1 - Climate change affects the rights of people with disabilities  - Infographic 2 - How climate change affects the rights of people with disabilities   - Infographic 3 - Addressing the effects of climate change on people living with disabilities
	- Infographic 1 - Climate change affects migrants’ rights  - Infographic 2 - How climate change affects migrants’ rights - Infographic 3 - Addressing the effects of climate change on migrants’ rights
	- Infographic 1 - Climate change affects the rights of older persons  - Infographic 2 - How climate change affects the rights of older persons - Infographic 3 - Addressing the effects of climate change on the rights of older persons