Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Author(s): E. Tendayi Achiume
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Extractive Resources, Gender, Governance, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Germany, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, South Africa, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots and consequences of environmental degradation, including climate change. This report explains why there can be no meaningful mitigation or resolution of the global ecological crisis without specific action to address systemic racism, in particular the historic and contemporary racial legacies of colonialism and slavery.