Event Conference
Transforming Food Systems and Ensuring Corporate Accountability as a Climate and Human Rights Imperative | HRC62 Side Event
22 Jun 2026
12:00 – 13:00
Venue: Palais des Nations | Room IX
Organization: FIAN International, Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Franciscans International, CETIM, Center for International Environmental Law, La Via Campesina, Indonesian Peasant Union, Republic of the Marshall Islands
In the context of the Special Rapporteur on Climate Change´s report on “Transforming food systems” to the HRC 62nd session (A/HRC/62/44), this event connects communities’ lived experiences of climate change and corporate impunity´s impacts on the right to food with action, calling for a human rights-based transformation of food systems and aiming to combat climate change.
About this Event
Industrial food corporations, backed by fossil fuels and petrochemicals, drive climate harm, environmental degradation, and human rights violations and abuses. Weak regulation and corporate influence can often enable them to evade accountability, increase their power, and control resources, worsening emissions, pollution, and loss of livelihoods for impacted communities.
In the context of the Special Rapporteur on Climate Change´s report on “Transforming food systems” to the HRC 62nd session (A/HRC/62/44), this event connects communities’ lived experiences of climate change and corporate impunity´s impacts on the right to food with action, calling for a human rights-based transformation of food systems and aiming to combat climate change.
Environment @ HRC62
The 62nd regular session of the Human Rights Council (HRC62) takes place in Geneva from 15 June to 10 July 2026. Consult this regularly-updated page that highlighted the environmental-related activities of this session.
