As we celebrate the 2024 World Day for the Right to the City, we look at the actions and strategies from youth groups to learn how they have been engaging both for climate and territorial justice, through the perspective of the Right to the City. For such, the GPR2C...
Climate Justice
Justice that links development and human rights to achieve a human-centred approach to addressing climate change, safeguarding the rights of the most vulnerable people and sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its impacts equitably and fairly.Climate Justice
Events
The impact of civil society on global climate governance: understanding the COPs
This informative session from the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) will provide information on the organization of global climate governance, with a focus on the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), in view of the COP30 to be held in Brazil in 2025, and...
Using the Right to the City to accelerate prevention of impacts on climate change in urban peripheries
The side event is based on the premise that climate change adverse effects are unevenly distributed among populations living in urban peripheries and precarious settlements, making it imperative to address it as a matter of social justice. It will shed light on the...
UNHA Side Event – Quito+7: A collective dialogue to recover and fulfill the New Urban Agenda’s Commitments
The Habitat III process reflected the deliberation of various actors to collectively commit to actions that make our cities, villages, territories and human settlements more just, inclusive, safe and sustainable. Key issues emerged toward the adoption of the New Urban...
Special Session [Right to the City] at the World Human Rights Cities Forum
In this session, we will be exploring the framework of the Right to the City in the context of climate justice through the GPR2C thematic paper - “Right to the City: A Road for Climate Justice” which will be presented by our dear Nelson Saule Júnior and also...
United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 27)
From 6 to 18 November 2022, the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt will host the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27), with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition to effectively tackle the global...
