A/HRC/20/7 he clarified that those countries being asked to contribute to a Green Climate Fund and climate financing are not being asked for charity, but rather for actual compensation to the developing countries and small island States they have impacted. 18. Dr. Naidoo also provided examples of how human rights can be a successful medium for addressing climate change. Recent discussions on the issue of climate-forced migration are addressing the political and legal rights of the estimated 200 million people who will be forcibly displaced by climate change by 2050. Another important success came in December 2010 when the Federated States of Micronesia requested a transboundary environmental impact assessment regarding the life extension of a coal-fired power plant in the Czech Republic. Micronesia established itself as a stakeholder based on human rights and environmental concerns. The Government of the Czech Republic recognized that transboundary pollution includes the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change and required the plant operator to offset future emissions. Dr. Naidoo raised the possibility that the Council should further explore the human rights implications of climate change through a special procedure, and he called for the recognition of the right to a healthy environment in the Rio+20 outcome document. B. Session 1: Adverse impacts of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and their inter-linkages 19. Session 1 focused on the adverse impacts of climate change and human rights and their inter-linkages. The moderator of the session was Shree Servansing, Permanent Representative of the Mission of Mauritius, and the rapporteur was Barbara Fontana, First Secretary and Deputy Head of the Human Rights Section of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland. The panellists for this session included Chaloka Beyani, Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons and a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics; John Crowley, Chief of the Sector on Ethics of Science and Technology of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Dinah Shelton, Chair of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and law professor at George Washington University Law School; Andrea Carmen, Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC); and Anita Nayar, member of the Executive Committee of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). 20. The panellists in Session 1 noted that climate change has caused and will continue to result in droughts and desertification, rising temperatures, effects on sea levels and habitability, loss of access to sanitary water and sudden-onset natural disasters such as cyclones and hurricanes. These events have and will continue to create forced migration, both internally and beyond borders, that will often be durable and require permanent solutions. 21. Confronting the physical effects of climate change presents a number of conceptual problems. It is generally understood that climate change is a human rights concern and that a human rights-based approach offers a response to this problem. Yet it is not always clear what this entails in practice. There is no individual human rights challenge that is unique to climate change because it is an aggregate phenomenon resulting from our social and economic models – that is, there is no singular “climate change human right” being violated – and the specificities of human rights impacts arise from differentiated vulnerability. 22. For example, the impacts of climate change disproportionately affect the rights of women, yet it has been difficult to integrate a gender perspective due to the dominant climate change discourse. Discussions of the relationship between climate change and population growth, for instance, have significant implications for women’s empowerment. Another example is those living in poverty and residing in rural areas. Adaptation and 7