Just released: Philip Alston's new report on climate change, poverty, and human rights. Climate change will have devastating consequences for people in poverty even under a best-case scenario. It threatens the future of human rights, and risks undoing the last fifty years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction. It could lead to a ‘climate apartheid’ scenario where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer, yet most human rights bodies have barely begun to grapple with what climate change portends. Here's the press release: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx… And report: https://srpovertyorg.files.wordpress.com/…/unsr-poverty-cli…