By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative
Is a human right to be protected from weather shift? The International Court of Justice addressing the issue of climate shift, as well as questions about whether and how nations may be held responsible for failing to take adequate steps to protect citizens from climate change, and upholding commitments they have made for greenhouse gas cuts. Legislation may possess enforcement mechanisms, but this is a challenge because legislatures must fix them. However, authorities have a role to play in addressing climate change, and this present issue builds on the more than 2,500 climate litigation circumstances that have been filed all over the world.
Culture and heritage are vital components of climate justice, even though this situation and other cases involve them not yet being fully developed. Drawing from this 2023 writing by Adam Markham of the Union of Concerned Professionals, numerous international partnerships, beginning with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, speak to the right to “freely join in social life”. As Markham’s essay and the work that many acquaintances in the field of archaeology and traditions are doing demonstrate, the effects of climate change are harming both locations and human ties to archaeology and traditions ( a 2022 record compiling these issues is here ). I believe it is crucial to ask: When will obligation for climate change and the loss of connection to our history come together in a way that may help or lead to legal action?
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Photo funds: A activist in Brazil calls for’ weather justice then.’ Photo taken by Adriano Machado/Reuters and shared at hyperlink above.
