AGAC Issue Focus is a biannual periodical that aims to address ageing and human rights issues in a timely fashion. The publication introduces relevant ASEM partner policies and responses to a wider audience in order to promote information sharing and awareness-raising and ultimately enhance ASEM partner cooperation.

The AGAC Issue Focus Team prepared this Spring/Summer Edition of Issue Focus: Climate Change and the Human Rights of Older Persons. Valuable insight and input were provided by the contributors to this issue—Gary Haq at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York; Bridget Sleap at Human Rights Watch; Prakash Tyagi at GRAVIS in India; and Joonmo Kang at the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas.

As the climate crisis deepens, the vulnerability of older persons in particular becomes ever more evident. Immediate action is needed to promote, protect, and ensure their right to life, health, and safety. As this edition makes clear, extreme climate events threaten older persons’ rights to housing, food, water and sanitation, social care and support, work and livelihoods, and mobility. We hope that this edition will serve as a spark for urgent change, inspiring advocates for the human rights of older persons around the world and contributing to improving their quality of life, now and in the immediate future.

For more information, please see the accompanying report.