16 JUNE 2015
- The United Nations, which is tasked with the protection of the global environment, has asserted that climate change affects people everywhere – with no exceptions.
Still, one of the greatest inequities of our time is that the poorest and the most marginalised individuals, communities and countries — which have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions — often bear the greatest burden, says the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Source: Inter Press Service News Agency