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Recommendation 62:
Collaborate with local non-governmental organizations by volunteering for, supporting, or signal boosting their campaigns.
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Recommendation 46:
Collaborate with governments to implement plastics education programs.
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Recommendation 5:
Collaborate internally and externally.
The climate crisis is too big for individual actors to tackle alone; stakeholders must act together to address the human rights impacts of climate change. This requires internal coordination between teams as well as external collaboration across industries, government, and civil society.
Internally, teams spearheading the consideration of climate and human rights can host workshops and trainings to bring people together and explore synergies between departments. Externally, collaboration may involve making commitments through the Business Pledge for Just Transition and Decent Green Jobs, an initiative to support a just transition by ensuring the creation of decent jobs, or establishing partnerships with experts and civil society organizations to create holistic strategies that tackle the human rights impacts of climate change.
Partnerships are key when building resilience to shocks. Many of the essential resilience-building activities will only be possible when companies, governments, and civil society come together. For example, a company can reinforce flood barriers around its own infrastructure, but a partnership with local government can further extend the resilience-building into the local community infrastructure, helping to ensure that workers can get to work and that their communities are protected, ultimately safeguarding both the business and the community.
The climate crisis is too big for individual actors to tackle alone; stakeholders must act together to address the human rights impacts of climate change. This requires internal coordination between teams as well as external collaboration across industries, government, and civil society.
Internally, teams spearheading the consideration of climate and human rights can host workshops and trainings to bring people together and explore synergies between departments. Externally, collaboration may involve making commitments through the Business Pledge for Just Transition and Decent Green Jobs, an initiative to support a just transition by ensuring the creation of decent jobs, or establishing partnerships with experts and civil society organizations to create holistic strategies that tackle the human rights impacts of climate change.
Partnerships are key when building resilience to shocks. Many of the essential resilience-building activities will only be possible when companies, governments, and civil society come together. For example, a company can reinforce flood barriers around its own infrastructure, but a partnership with local government can further extend the resilience-building into the local community infrastructure, helping to ensure that workers can get to work and that their communities are protected, ultimately safeguarding both the business and the community.
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Recommendation 5:
Climate change could contribute to the temporary displacement and permanent migration of millions of people in the coming decades. Countries should cooperate in the development of an international mechanism for addressing climate-induced displacement and migration, both within and across domestic borders. Proposals have already been made for the creation of “Climate Change Displacement Coordination Facility” within the UNFCCC, and countries should consider supporting the development of such a facility.
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Recommendation 4:
Build awareness of climate and human rights impacts and advocate for action at all levels.
While momentum is gaining, the intersection of climate change and human rights is still a nascent concept for business, and even for many individuals within the human rights and climate change fields. As advocates continue to integrate this concept into their approaches, companies can help build awareness by hosting events, developing thought leadership, or simply providing a convening space for others to share their voice, particularly those most affected by climate change.
Equally, governments must consider the intersection of climate change and human rights, including how to retrofit existing legislation to address emerging issues at this intersection and create new regulations. Companies can call on all levels of government to integrate a human rights and equity lens into their climate solutions, and vice versa. The climate action plans developed by the cities of Portland and Oakland in the US are great examples of how to integrate racial equity into governments’ climate plans.
While momentum is gaining, the intersection of climate change and human rights is still a nascent concept for business, and even for many individuals within the human rights and climate change fields. As advocates continue to integrate this concept into their approaches, companies can help build awareness by hosting events, developing thought leadership, or simply providing a convening space for others to share their voice, particularly those most affected by climate change.
Equally, governments must consider the intersection of climate change and human rights, including how to retrofit existing legislation to address emerging issues at this intersection and create new regulations. Companies can call on all levels of government to integrate a human rights and equity lens into their climate solutions, and vice versa. The climate action plans developed by the cities of Portland and Oakland in the US are great examples of how to integrate racial equity into governments’ climate plans.
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Recommendation 63:
Be strict about plastic consumption and disposal in your daily life. Set personal goals, for example, to stop using single-use plastics, and hold yourself accountable.
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Recommendation 16:
Advocate within trade alliances for sector-wide agreements to curb plastic pollution.
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Recommendation 67:
Advocate for recycling and recovery in your neighborhoods and among your peers.
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Recommendation 53:
Advocate for increased investment in waste management infrastructure from local governments.
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Recommendation 6:
A just recovery must uphold Indigenous rights and include full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples, in line with the standard of free, prior and informed consent.
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