We joined 24 other organisations in the Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group to contribute to 'Fossil Fuels-Fueled Loss and Damage, the Right to Remedy and the Polluter Pays Principle', a joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights for their 2025 Annual Report.

The joint submission provides evidence that shows how the failure to phase out of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate-related loss and damage with wide scale impacts that encompass economic and non economic damages. It also underlines the role of militarisation in sustaining the fossil fuel economy, propelling cycles of violence and systemic human rights violations, depleting ecosystems and heightening conflict, ultimately putting all conditions of wellbeing at risk.

In this context, our submission emphasises that, under international human rights law, States are obligated to protect human rights from the harms of climate change by phasing out fossil fuels.