(VOVWORLD)-Climate change threatens to deliver a truly terrifying dystopian future of hunger and suffering, United Nations' human rights chief Volker Turk told a UN Human Rights Council session on Monday.
Turk said that extreme weather events are wiping out crops, herds, and ecosystems, making it impossible for communities to rebuild and support themselves. Addressing climate change is a human rights issue and now is the time to act, he said.
Turk said the current generation, with the most powerful technological tools in history, has the capacity to change the status quo of climate change.
He called for an end to senseless subsidies of the fossil fuel industry, and said the Dubai COP28 climate summit in November and December must be the decisive game-changer that the world needs.