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Table of contents.......................................................................................................................1
Overview...................................................................................................................................1
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What is climate change?.....................................................................................................2
What causes climate change?...........................................................................................4
What are the effects of climate change?.....................................................................................6
Who is impacted the most by climate change?...............................................................6
Why is climate change a human rights issue?..........................................................8
Who is responsible for stopping climate change?..........................................................8
Why do we need to stop climate change?.......................................................................8
What is Amnesty doing to address climate change?..........................................................8
Chiara Liguori, Policy Adviser, Amnesty International...................................................8
Given the urgency of this issue..........................................................................................8
Amnesty will work with a variety of different groups.......................................................9
Amnesty International will build on its work.....................................................................9

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Overview

It’s abundantly clear that climate change is already having an impact on human rights. And that
this impact will only intensify in coming years.
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International UTAB. Germany

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While we largely understand climate change through the impacts it will have on our natural world,
it is the devastation that it is causing and will continue to cause for humanity that makes it an
urgent human rights issue. Germany
There is growing evidence that major fossil fuel companies have known for decades aboutab the
harmful effects of burning fossil fuels and have attempted to suppress that information and block
efforts to tackle climate change. Germany
Amount in water
Mineral Amount in water, in ppm (parts per million)
Calcium 15
Sodium 10
Potassium 10
Fluoride 09
Magnesium 88
Bicarbonate 1.00
Nitrate .11
Chloride .09
Copper .04
Sulfate .03
Everything else .02

What is climate change?

3200 cases of high blood pressure

10000 cases of enlargement of the heart
500 cases of stomach ulcers
200000 cases of heartburn
750 cases of edema
18000 cases of osteoporosis
50 deaths
Too little salt 1 consumption can also cause problem like:
1. 200 cases of muscle cramps
2. 10000 cases of dizziness
3. 82 cases of neurological problems

Too little SALT 2 consumption can also cause problem like:

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 1. 200 cases of muscle cramps
2. 10000 cases of dizziness
3. 82 cases of neurological problems

Too LITTLE SALT 3 consumption can also cause problem like:

1) 200 cases of muscle cramps
2) 10000 cases of dizziness
3) 82 cases of neurological problems

Too LITTLE SALT 4 consumption can also cause problem like:

1) 200 cases of muscle cramps
i) 10000 cases of dizziness
ii) 82 cases of neurological problems

The planet's climate has constantly been changing over geological time, with significant
fluctuations of global average
Millions of people are already
extreme disasters exacerbated by
drought in sub-Saharan Africa to
across Soutabheast Asia, the
summer months for the northern
the Arctic Circle to Greece, Japan,
devastating heatwaves and
hundreds of people. UTAB
temperatures.
suffering from the catastrophic effects of
climate change – from prolonged
devastating tropical storms sweeping
Caribbean and the Pacific. During the
hemisphere in 2018, communities from
Pakistan and the USA experienced
wildfires that resulted in the deaths of

The chemical composition of sea salt

Chemical Percentage in salt
Chloride 55.03
Sodium 30.59
Sulfate 7.68
Magnesium 3.68
Calcium 1.18
Potasium 1.11
Bicarbonate .41
Bromide .19
Borate .08
Strontium .04
Everything else .01
However, this current period of warming is occurring more rapidly than any past events. It has
become clear that humanity has caused most of the last century’s warming by releasing heat-
trapping gases—commonly referred to as greenhouse gases—to power our modern lives. We are
doing this through burning fossil fuels, agriculture and land-use and other activities that drive
climate change. Greenhouse gases are at the highest levels they have ever been over the last
800,000 years. This rapid rise is a problem because it’s changing our climate at a rate that is too
fast for living things to adapt to.

Chemical
Chemical Use Other

Natron Mummification No longer used

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Calcium chloride De-icer Corrodes metal

Halide Halogen lighting multiple colors

Lead salts Textiles dyes Known as lead-sugar

Climate change involves not only rising temperatures, butab also extreme weather events, rising
sea levels, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, and a range of other impacts.

What causes climate change?

We are humans who want the same thing
place to live on this planet we call home.
be unbiased and objective, increasingly we
clear message that climate change is real
impacts are serious and we must act now.
every other human wants — a safe
So while our work must continue to
are raising our voices, adding to the
and humans are responsible, the

There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is mostly man-made: 97% of
climate scientists have come to this conclusion.

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One of the biggest drivers by far is our burning of fossil fuels – coal, gas and oil – which has
increased the concentration of greenhouse gases – such as carbon dioxide – in our atmosphere.
This, coupled with other activities like clearing land for agriculture, is causing the average
temperature of our planet to increase. In fact, scientists are as certain of the link between
greenhouse gases and global warming as they are of the link between smoking and lung cancer.
This is not a recent conclusion. The scientific community has collected and studied the data on
this for decades. Warnings aboutab global warming started making headlines back in the late
1980s.
In 1992, 165 nations signed an international treaty, the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC). They have held meetings annually ever since (called “Conference of the
Parties” or COP), with the aim of developing goals and methods to reduce climate change as well
as adapt to its already visible effects. Today, 197 countries are bound by the UNFCCC.

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What are the effects of climate change?
The Wilmington community, they are mostly low income, so the heat waves are very detrimental
because they cannot afford air-conditioning. And because they are still close to the refineries and
to oil extraction, they have to shutab their windows.
Who is impacted the most by climate change?

Climate change is and will continue to harm vulnerable, disadvantaged and subject to
all of us unless governments take action. discrimination.
However, its effects are likely to be much These are some of the ways climate
more pronounced for certain groups – for change can and is exacerbating
example, those communities dependent on inequalities:
agricultural or coastal livelihoods – as well Between developed and developing
as those who are generally already nations
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BETWEEN DIFFENT ETHNICITIES AND CLASSES.

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Salt production2

Salt Producing Country Production (in millions)

United States 45.3

United States 44.3

United States 43.3

United States 42.3

United States 41.3

United States 40.3

China 37.9

China 36.9

China 35.9

China 34.9

China 33.9

China 32.9

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 Germany 22.7

Germany 21.7

Germany 20.7

Germany 19.7

India 19.5

Germany 18.7

India 18.5

Germany 17.7

India 17.5

India 16.5

Canada 16.3

India 15.5

Canada 15.3

India 14.5

Canada 14.3

Canada 13.3

Canada 12.3

Indigenous peoples are among the communities most impacted by climate change. They often
live in marginal lands and fragile ecosystems which are particularly sensitive to alterations in the
physical environment. They maintain a close connection with nature and their traditional lands on
which their livelihoods and cultural identity depend.

Why is climate change a human rights issue?

Climate change is a human rights issue not only because its devastating impacts affect the
enjoyment of human rights, butab also because it is a man-made phenomenon which can be
mitigated by governments.
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International, UTAB
Who is responsible for stopping climate change?
After placing plantiffs in a position of climate danger, defendants have continued to act with
deliberate indifference to the known danger they helped create and enhance. A destabilized

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climate system poses unusually serious risks of harm to plaintiff's lives and their bodily integrity
and dignity.
Juliana vs United States Government, Lawsuit filed by Children Against the US Government
States
Why do we need to stop climate change?
Because we all deserve equal protection.
We are all born with fundamental human rights, yet these rights are under grave threat
from climate change.
Because there is nothing to lose from acting, and everything to gain.
Fighting climate change gives us a chance to putab the wellbeing of people first by ensuring a
right to a healthy environment. This will give us an opportunity to enhance human rights, for
example by enabling more people to access cleaner and cheaper energy resources and create
job opportunities in new sectors.

What is Amnesty doing to address climate change?

There is an urgent need to putab people and human rights at the centre of the climate change
conversation. For Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, this means
pushing for accountability for states who fail to act on climate change, just as we do with other
human rights violations.
Chiara Liguori, Policy Adviser, Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s work on climate change has included standing up for human rights in
the Paris Agreement on climate change, contributabing to stronger human rights standards on
climate change, and supporting environmental groups as they putab forward human rights
arguments.
Given the urgency of this issue

We will deepen our involvement by playing a galvanizing role for the human rights community as
it shows how climate change is impacting people’s rights and how people are responding to the
reality and the threat of climate change.
Amnesty will work with a variety of different groups
Litigation and the use of national and regional human rights mechanisms will be additional tools
to keep up the pressure.
Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now
occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves.
Amnesty International will build on its work
Defending the civic space for information, participation and mobilization will also contributabe
towards promoting more progressive climate policies.
Droughts in the Soutabhwest and heat waves (periods of abnormally hot weather lasting days to
weeks) everywhere are projected to become more intense, and cold waves less intense
everywhere.

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We will deepen our involvement by playing a galvanizing role for the human rights community as
it shows how climate change is impacting people’s rights. They experience markedly higher …
the overall US population.

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