global promotion of basic human rights avert planetary catastrophe joining me now from vancouver is david boyd the un special rapporteur on human rights and the environment thank you so much measure up of your for coming on just explain that remit human rights and the environment for. yes owen it's basically a u.n. volunteer position they have many of these independent experts and my particular expertise is in the area of preventing adverse human rights impacts from environmental degradation shining a spotlight on instances where this occurs or around the world and identifying solutions that can protect the environment and protect human rights now on this show we often talk about the the war between different pluses it when it comes to the environment it's often said the richest one percent more than double the poorest 50 percent in terms of emissions we have statistics showing that high income countries use once above 46 percent of consumption based c o 2 and just 0.4 of low income who is the media here it's billionaires saving the planet what is the club dimension here well there's a huge th

global promotion of basic human rights avert planetary catastrophe joining me now from vancouver is david boyd the un special rapporteur on human rights and the environment thank you so much measure up of your for coming on just explain that remit human rights and the environment 1st yes so it's basically a u.n. volunteer position they have many of these independent experts and my particular expertise is in the area of preventing adverse human rights impacts from environmental degradation shining a spotlight on instances where this occurs around the world and identifying solutions that can protect the environment and protect human rights now on this show we often talk about the war between different classes that when it comes to the environment it's often said the richest one percent more than double the poorest 50 percent in terms of emissions we have statistics showing that high income countries response above 46 percent of consumption based c o 2 and just 0.4 of low income who is the media here it's billionaires saving the planet what is the class dimension here. well there's a huge there's