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A senior United Nations expert called for criminal sanctions imposing on those who promote misleading information about the climate crisis, and to impose a full ban on pressure and advertising groups for the fossil fuel industry, as part of a radical restructuring process to protect human rights and reduce climate change.
Elisa Morhaga, the United Nations Special Resolution on Human Rights and Climate Change, which submitted its new report to the General Assembly in Geneva on Monday, said that the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other fossil fuel -rich countries are legally binding under international law to completely gradually eliminating oil, gas and coal by 2030, and compensating societies for the damage caused.
She also pointed to the necessity of prohibiting hydraulic cracking, oil sand and burning gas, as well as exploring fossil fuels, financial support, investments, and false technological solutions that will limit future generations to oil, gas, polluted coal and increasingly costly.
“Despite the clear evidence of the interconnected and extended effects between generations, severe and wide range of the life cycle of fossil fuel on human rights, these countries have achieved and still achieve huge profits of fossil fuel, and still do not take decisive measures,” Murgghra, a professor of global environmental law at the University of Strathklaide in the United Kingdom.
It also indicated that these countries are responsible for not preventing the widespread damage to human rights caused by climate change and other planetary crises that we face, including the loss of biological diversity, plastic pollution, and the lack of economic equality caused by the extraction of fossil fuels, its use and waste. “
Climate justice
The report confirms that the island states, indigenous societies and other weak societies – which have benefited less than fossil fuels – are now facing the worst complex damage caused by the climate crisis and other environmental damage associated with extracting, transporting and using it for energy, fuel, plastic and artificial fertilizers.
It also refers to a huge amount of evidence of the great, long -term and accumulated damage caused by the fossil fuel industry – oil, gas, coal, fertilizers and plastic – on almost every human rights, including the right to life, self -determination, health, food, water, education, information and livelihoods.
Morghaa stresses the necessity of “removing fossil fuels in all sectors, including policy, finance, food, media, technology and knowledge. She believes that the transition to clean energy is not sufficient to address the widespread and increasing damage caused by fossil fuels.”
In order to comply with the current International Human Rights Law, countries are obligated to inform their citizens of the widespread damage caused by fossil fuels and that the gradual disposal of oil, gas and coal is the most effective way to combat the climate crisis.
“The fossil fuel style has undermined the protection of all human rights, which was negatively affected by climate change for more than six decades,” said Morhara in her report on the necessity of removing fossil fuels from our economies.
According to the report, countries have to ban fossil fuel advertisements and pressure groups, criminalizing misinformation and distortion by the fossil fuel industry, media and advertising companies, and imposing harsh penalties for attacks on climate advocates who face an increase in malicious lawsuits, online harassment and physical violence.
Societies around the world are facing increasing threats from high sea levels, desertification, drought, melting of iceotilities, severe heat, floods, and other climate effects. Added to this is the contamination of deadly air, water scarcity, loss of biological diversity, and forced displacement of the indigenous and rural population, linked to each stage of the life of fossil fuel life cycle.
Hode for interests and obligations
On the other hand, fossil fuel companies and petrochemicals benefited from huge profits, taxpayers support, tax evasion plans, and not due protection under the International Investment Law, without contributing to reducing energy poverty and economic varying, according to the report.
In 2023, oil and gas companies globally achieved revenues of $ 2.4 trillion, while coal companies reaped $ 2.5 trillion, according to the report.
Removing fossil fuel subsidies, which is expected to exceed 1.4 trillion dollars for members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and 48 other countries in 2023, will reduce emissions by 10% by 2030.
Also, the redirect of these benefits would help the rich countries producing fossil fuels to fulfill their legal obligations to help developing countries gradually getting rid of fossil fuels, providing financial solutions and others. This would limit the widespread violations of human rights and the environmental damage caused by these countries and still cause them.
The report also highlights the human rights issue, calling for decisive and transformational political measures to reduce pain and suffering from the climate crisis. Recommendations make a vision of a world in which priority is given to the basic rights of all people at the expense of the profits and benefits that are few, although some may reject them as radical and unconvincing.
“It is irony that what may seem radical or unrealistic, which is to turn into a renewable economy, is now cheaper and safer for our economies and a more healthy choice for our societies,” Morhara told the Guardian.