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Sur France 24, le directeur exécutif de Human Rights Watch, Philippe Bolopion, juge l'administration Trump "catastrophique" pour les droits de l'homme, aux États-Unis comme à l'international. Il l'accuse de vouloir "détruire l'idée même de justice internationale" et dénonce un exemple américain "corrosif" pour le reste du monde.

Yet, as the climate crisis worsens, the civic space for climate protests is shrinking. Instead of focusing on meeting their commitments to reduce climate change, governments are threatening environmental protectors—from Indigenous communities defending their ancestral lands to young activists protesting the expansion of fossil fuels—with intimidation, legal harassment, and at times deadly violence. New forms of attacks are emerging, like the use of counterterrorism laws against climate activists, who are vilified in public and political discourse. And governments have been ratcheting-up their repression of such protests.

Scientists have linked extreme weather events like excessive heat, flooding and wildfires to big emitter states’ failure to take urgent climate action despite the dangers posed to the rights of those living there and around the world. Governments worldwide are breaking electoral promises, defying court decisions over their lack of climate action, and ignoring warnings that have been voiced by international bodies for years.

In a landmark paper, the UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders warns that the continued State efforts to repress and criminalise environmental protests, including direct action and civil disobedience, are a threat to fundamental freedoms and democracy itself.

A Climate Rights International report exposes the increasingly heavy-handed treatment of climate activists in Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It found the crackdown in these countries – including lengthy prison sentences, preventive detention and harassment – was a violation of governments’ legal responsibility to protect basic rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and association. It also highlights how these same governments frequently criticise regimes in developing countries for not respecting the right to protest peacefully.

A climate monster is growing right now in the Pacific Ocean, perhaps the most fearsome El Niño since before scientists even began modeling them. They now know the pattern quite well: A marine heat-wave in the Pacific Ocean scrambles global weather and produces in some places more intense droughts and in others more intense rainfall and flooding; disruptions to hurricane patterns and monsoon seasons, which can cause widespread crop failures; and much more punishing heat.

Rights-based, post-growth policies that make poverty eradication a deliberate outcome of restructured economies — not a trickle-down side effect of destructive growth.

Le secrétaire américain à l'Énergie Chris Wright a exhorté mercredi à Paris l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) à abandonner ses travaux sur le changement climatique pour mieux se concentrer sur sa mission originelle de sécurité énergétique.

Le ministre américain de l'Energie Chris Wright a estimé mercredi que l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) devait "laisser tomber" son travail sur la question du changement climatique pour se concentrer sur la sécurité énergétique. "Je veux obtenir le soutien des autres nations de cette noble organisation pour travailler avec nous afin de pousser l'AIE à laisser tomber le climat. Ça, c'est de la politique", a déclaré M. Wright lors d'une réunion ministérielle à Paris. Le ministre a menacé par le passé de retirer les États-Unis de l'AIE, à moins que celle-ci ne réforme sa manière de fonctionner.

L'ONG Human Rights Watch a averti mercredi que le président Donald Trump était en train de transformer les Etats-Unis en un Etat autoritaire alors que la démocratie et les droits humains sont attaqués de toute part.