Summary

In the present report, submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 33/14 and 51/7, the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Surya Deva, develops a climate justice framework comprising four pillars (mitigation, adaptation, remediation and transformation) and 12 overarching human rights principles. He proposes that climate change-related loss and damage, which undermines the right to development of individuals and communities, especially those living in developing countries, should be seen as part of the remediation pillar of the climate justice framework. The Special Rapporteur recommends a rainbow of measures that States, international financial institutions, multilateral development banks and businesses must take to address loss and damage. He also outlines several human rights principles that the World Bank, as an interim trustee of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, and the Fund’s Board should integrate into all aspects concerning the Fund’s administration.