21st ASEM Seminar on Human Rights and Climate Change!

Prof. Kamrul Hossain has participated as an invited scholar at the 21st ASEM Seminar on Human Rights, and Climate Change held in Luxembourg on 16-18 March 2022. The seminar brought over one hundred participants from Asian and European countries representing actors from governments, third sectors, and academia to discuss critical perspectives concerning the effect of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights. The discussions aim at contributing to a better understanding of the interplay between climate change and human rights. The three-day seminar has included presenting a background paper featuring interlinked agenda on climate change and human rights, several speeches from high-ranking governmental officials, panel sessions, and intensives discussions in four designated working groups on four thematic areas. The thematic areas are: Reinforcing socio-ecological resilience of communities through information and public participation; Promoting the full enjoyment of human rights by all persons affected by climate change; Green, equitable and inclusive: Innovative ideas on international cooperation to address the impacts of climate change on human rights; and Taking stock of national and international human rights regimes to protect against the consequences of climate change. Discussions in these four working groups brought into a summed-up paper identifying concretized key areas with possible policy recommendations for better integration of human rights in climate change policies and actions to communicate with the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) member countries.