Impact of new technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights
Background
At its forty-eighth session (13 September-11 October 2021), the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 48/14, in which it requested the Advisory Committee to conduct a study and to prepare a report, in close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, on the impact of new technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights, and to submit the report to the Council at its fifty-fourth session (September 2023).
Drafting group
At the time of finalization of the report, the members of the drafting group were:
- Buhm-Suk BAEK
- Rabah BOUDACHE
- Milena COSTAS TRASCASAS (Chair)
- Ajai MALHOTRA
- Javier PALUMMO
- Vasilka SANCIN
- Patrycja SASNAL (Rapporteur)
- Vassilis TZEVELEKOS
- Frans VILJOEN
The final report of the Advisory Committee was submitted to the fifty-fourth session (September 2023) of the Human Rights Council, see Impact of new technologies intended for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights (2023) – A/HRC/54/47
Inputs received
Member States
- Algeria (9 June 2022)
- Azerbaijan (4 May 2022)
- Burundi (19 May 2022)
- Guyana (4 May 2022)
- Italy (28 April 2022)
- Malta(29 April 2022)
- Mauritius (29 April 2022)
- Mexico (29 April 2022)
- Poland (29 April 2022)
- Romania (30 May 2022)
- European Union
NHRIs
Non-governmental organizations and Civil Society Organizations
- Amnesty International (29 April 2022)
- Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar LLC (G) (27 May 2022)
- CIEL (10 June 2022) Joint submission - Annex
- Green Africa Youth Organization (30 May 2022)
- International Committee for the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (28 April 2022)
- Maat for peace (11 May 2022)
- Quaker United Nations Office (27 May 2022)
- Sustenta Honduras (29 April 2022)
- Tonatierra (28 May 2022)
- The Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights (GIF) (3 June 2022)
Academics
- Aaron TANG - The Australian National University (30 may 2022)
- (C2G) CARNEGIE CLIMATE GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE ( 29 April 2022)
- Center for Human Rights & Environment (CHRE) and the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD)
- Dr Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh - Leiden University (27 May 2022)
- Econexus (28 April 2022)
- German Environment Agency (29 April 2022)
- WIL BURNS (6 April 2022)