ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the ESCR Committee has addressed environmental issues, climate change, and sustainable development including the SDGs. This section discusses the Concluding Observations of the ESCR Committee as they relate to climate change, sustainable development including SDGs and environmental pollution. It discusses some of the noteworthy statements that the Committee made in its concluding observations. The Committee further expressed concern at human rights violations in mining and plantations sectors, including rights to livelihood, food, water, and labor and cultural rights and that the free, prior, and informed consent of affected communities is not always sought. On the report of Ecuador, the Committee expressed concern about the health and environmental impacts of natural resources extraction by companies at the expense of land and cultural rights of indigenous communities and the equilibrium of the ecosystem.
