Without principles reflected in binding text, Paris Climate Agreement will lack necessary framework for effective action

State representatives are locking horns over the inclusion of human rights in the binding part of the agreement, including the rights of indigenous peoples.

LE BOURGET, FRANCE—It’s been “A Tale of Two Cities” here in Paris at the UN climate talks. The Paris of 1948 saw the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

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