This video depicts the 59th session of the Human Rights Council, in the framework of the Geneva Rights and Climate Talks and the Geneva Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues. In her report to the 59th session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/59/42), the UN Special Rapporteur on climate change, Elisa Morgera, stresses that the increasing production of plastics and petrochemicals is embedding dependence on fossil fuels in our economies within and beyond the energy sector, regardless of continued contributions to climate change and other human rights harm. In addition, plastics and petrochemicals cause their own host of severe human rights impacts, worsening climate change, biodiversity loss and toxic pollution, and thereby compounding negative impacts on the rights to life, health, an adequate standard of living and a healthy environment and on cultural rights.