It was the first international declaration to explicitly state the effects climate change will bear on human rights:
Climate change has clear and immediate implications for the full enjoyment of human rights including inter alia the right to life, the right to take part in cultural life, the right to use and enjoy property, the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to food, and the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;
Male’ Declaration on the Human Dimension of Global Climate Change. (2007).