Perspective on mapping human rights violations, 5th Global Land Programme OSM, Mexico

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Topic: Leading a session at the 5th Global Land Programme OSM in Oaxaca, Mexico on mapping human rights violations. This session will explore the intersection of Human Rights and Environmental Health, from a legal and scientific standpoint, in light of the UN General Assembly’s resolution recognising the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in July 2022. We aim to bring together lawyers and scientists to improve our capacity to map, monitor and act on human environmental rights violations across the world.

Role: Gupta presented a power point on how human rights violations have been used to determine just boundaries (e.g. 1C for climate change), as safe planetary boundaries (eg. 1.5C) only ensure that the system does not go out of balance, she showed how meeting human rights to food, water, energy and infrastructure has a pressure on the environmental domains and that this pressure can be calculated in the same units as the boundaries revealing the safe and just corridor. Since we are outside the boundaries and have not yet minimum needs, it is of vital importance that we first meet minimum needs and then share the remaining budget. Vitally, we need to phase out fossil fuel and do this justly. This requires a radical change of our global system. She concluded by inviting the participants to write an essay on what they think should be part of a global Constitution.