The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment mapped out a strategy for important protections of rainforest and natural resources to provide an economy to nations with sensitive assets such as carbon sinks. It would be a good place to start for several reasons.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (click here)
The Millennimum Ecosystem Assessment was widely received globally as a scientific basis to develop economies that were benevolent and worthy of the dignity of peoples living on Earth.
Currently, there are droughts, wildfires, crop failures, loss of potable water sources, outbreaks of disease, The Sixth Extinction, melting ice caps and icefields all of which relate to hunger, famine and imperiled humanity.
The First World has to respond to the global impacts of their societies causing hardship among people that have done nothing wrong or caused them any hardship.
There is currently sea level rise where people no longer have land to live on. Land is a requirement for people to carry out their lives. These are serious issues with dire consequences. It is not just enough to report the human rights abuses of governments of their people, there is also the responsibility of a climate able to sustain them. When governments slash and burn their forests or allow biotic deterioration that is as much a human rights problem as any jail or prison.
The IPCC and Dr. Chris Field (click here) knows the dynamics and knows the work there needs to be to save people from themselves.
Currently, there are nations in Africa where subsistence farming doesn't support the families depending on it. The land is unable to provide for them. The problem is more the lack of a First World directive to change the economy from subsistence to manufacturing, crafts persons, exportable goods and services.
Subsistence farming will wane in the face of economic productivity of products and services. Africa needs to manufacture their own medications, preserve the land for tourism, seek to produce items and participate in a global economy. Subsistence farming is not possible in growing populations. It provides for some while leaving many in poverty and outside the ability to participate.
The Climate Crisis is a huge issue and needs to be included as a human rights abuse when governments seek to avoid their responsibility rather than embrace it.
