Climate change and the environment

FAO has contributed to disaster risk reduction and management efforts related to agreed climate action targets in many countries in line with SDG 13, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and has supported the formulation of national policies and regional plans translated into national plans for disaster risk reduction and to enhance coherence and mutual reinforcement of United Nations efforts in building resilience and ensuring the implementation of an integrated, risk-informed approach to sustainable development goals. The organization also helped generate capacity to mainstream disaster risk reduction and warning activities The organization has also provided tools, databases and learning materials to enhance the national capacity to design, implement and report on actions in line with global agreements on climate and includes knowledge products. and the organization’s products have been used. Knowledge in negotiating processes within the framewor...

The International Labor Organization has issued multiple reports on research that shed light on new and emerging issues regarding the impact of climate change on global employment, the skills required for a greener future, and the implications of heat stress on the workplace. At the 2018 G-20 meeting in Argentina, it prepared The International Labor Organization (ILO) published a special report on the impact of climate change adaptation on employment. In particular, the report looks at measures to adapt to climate change that would create employment through green work and protect workers and incomes. In addition, the report proposes accompanying policies and enabling measures, including measures related to the establishments in order to achieve the maximum positive impact on employment due to the transition to a climate-adaptive economy, and the transition to the energy sector was the focus of most of the research and analyzes addressed by the organization, and the organization also es...

The role of  (UNHCR) in climate change mitigation and adaptation UNHCR has shown its willingness, to participate in the response to displacement in the context of climate change .  as UNHCR has seen that climate change is a risk multiplier or a threat multiplier for other drivers of displacement.  Access to livelihoods puts pressures on education and health services, often exacerbated by pressures on governance and access to resources in general.  UNHCR also expressed concern that when populations are forced to move due to climate change and conflict, they are very rare to return.  In the past, return was a permanent solution once the conflict ended, but now with climate change and environmental degradation, many people do not find a place to return to. This changes the way UNHCR should look at durable solutions and work with them in the future, as UNHCR has played an important role In supporting the development of international, regional, national and non-na...

Believing in the serious negative effects of climate change on humanity, the United Nations General Assembly in 1988 discussed the issue of climate change and issued its decision to form the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). and this team was formed in cooperation with the Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)to carry out scientific research and evaluate information related to climate change from the scientific, technical, economic and social aspects. and this team concluded in 1990 that there are technically feasible and cost-effective measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through national measures and Regional meetings and agreements followed, with the aim of limiting the phenomenon of climate change. The Intergovernmental Authority on Climate Change has proposed a wide range of options for adaptation to climate change, as it developed an appropriate plan to adapt to the catastrophic effects of climate change on all sect...

“One of the very valuable lessons I learned during my nine years in office is that governments and international organizations cannot adequately do their job without effective engagement,” former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris in 2015. And the support of civil society, we need strong engagement and cooperation with the business community, the private sector and civil society, so these tripartite partnerships are necessary and fundamental to the success of any government or society. We are all born with basic human rights, but those rights are always under imminent threat from the effects of climate change, and we all deserve equal protection from this global threat. There is nothing to lose by taking the initiative and we have everything to gain. Addressing climate change gives us the opportunity to attach importance to the well-being of people by ensuring the right to a healthy ...

Efforts to reduce or mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change and adapt to it. The issue of climate change is considered a crucial crisis of our time, and its effects are unevenly weighted against the most vulnerable people in the world, namely refugees, displaced persons and stateless persons, who are in dire need of protection. In light of rapid global warming, extreme weather conditions have become. Heavy rains, droughts, heat waves, and tropical storms) are more difficult to predict, more intense and frequent, and increase the risk of more rapid and slow-onset hazards, including floods, landslides, and erosion. The sea leads to increased coastal flooding, soil salinization, and the risk of permanent flooding in low-lying areas. It was stated in the 2010 Development Report issued by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Action is now necessary, otherwise the possible options will disappear and costs will increase with the world’s approach to developm...

results and suggestions about climate change. Talking about the environment and its protection has become a recognized issue at the present time, and it has become an increasingly complex and intertwined problem, which has led to an urgent need to intervene and conduct careful studies of the environment and its characteristics and diagnose the problems that it suffers from. There must be harmonious, harmonious, non-contradictory environmental legislation that can be applied on the ground. In its work, impartiality, objectivity and transparency are taken into account. Developing curricula at university levels within the faculties of law related to environmental legislation and international humanitarian law. The concept of legal protection of the environment is a broad concept and is constantly changing because the areas of protection embodied by these rules cannot be known in advance because the world and the environment are in constant change, so it is necessary to develop legislation...

Principles of international humanitarian law the third and fourth principles The principle of distinguishing between military objectives and civilian objectives With the development of weapons of all kinds, especially the so-called smart ones, it has become possible, to strike the opponent everywhere, and at any time outside the scope of military actions, and thus the possibility of not being exposed, to the areas where civilians are present, and therefore civilians must be protected from the mistakes, and damages of war, through the establishment of controls, and restrictions To distinguish between civilian and military objectives, and to preserve human freedoms, and protect his property in times of peace, and war alike. Thus, the first Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions in, 1977, stipulated in Article 48 that," (the parties to the conflict shall work to distinguish between the civilian population, and combatants, and between civilian objects and military objectives, a...

Principles governing the international protection of the environment during armed conflict The principle of restricting the right of the warring parties to choose methods and means of warfare: In view of the great development that took place in the arts of armament and methods of fighting and the use of advanced weapons that have a great destructive effect on human life in all aspects of human life and the effects and losses they cause at all levels, it has become necessary to subject the warring parties in choosing means of fighting to a kind of Controls, restrictions and rules to ensure at least the alleviation of human suffering or environmental damage resulting from wars and armed conflicts, as Article 22 of the Hague Convention of 1907 stipulates that (the belligerents do not have an absolute right to choose the means to harm the enemy). As Article 35 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1977 stipulates in its first paragraph (the first clause: The right of the ...

Climate change International humanitarian law and climate change International humanitarian law, an introduction The continuous deterioration in the natural environment,  since the beginning of the seventies of the last century, has led to a general awareness of the seriousness of the aggression perpetrated by man against nature, especially during the period of armed conflicts, and the resulting pollution of the environment, and all its resources, which directly threatens human existence.  The international interest in protecting the environment has been reflected.  In issuing many declarations, and international resolutions, including the Declaration of Progress and Development in the Social Field in, 1969, the Stockholm Declaration in 1972, the World Charter for Nature in 1982, the Rio de Janeiro Conference and, its Declaration in, 1992, and the Kyoto Protocol in, 1997, on the commitment of, international countries to international standards Specific emissions of green...