Climate change and human rights might often be presented as separate CSR issues, but according to Ryan Schuchard and Nicki Weston they increasingly represent two sides of the same coin
Though climate change and human rights are important corporate responsibility issues on their own terms, they are increasingly interrelated.
As our global climate destabilizes, there will be an increase in water stress, food scarcity, the prevalence and intensity of diseases, and the loss of homelands and jobs around the world. In turn, climate change is likely to affect several rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), such as the right to life and security, the right to food, and the right to health.
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