Human Rights Approaches To Climate Change

Author : Sumudu Atapattu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317910619

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Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change by Sumudu Atapattu Pdf

Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently. This book examines the link between climate change and human rights in a comprehensive manner. It looks at human rights approaches to climate change, including the jurisprudential bases for human rights and the environment, the theoretical framework governing human rights and the environment, and the different approaches to this including benchmarks. In addition to a discussion of human rights implications of international environmental law principles in the climate change regime, the book explores how the human rights framework can be used in relation to mitigation, adaption, and adjudication. Other chapters examine how vulnerable groups –women, indigenous peoples and climate "refugees" – would be disproportionately affected by climate change. The book then goes on to discuss a new category of people created by climate change, those who will be rendered stateless as a result of states disappearing and displaced by climate change, and whether human rights law can adequately address these emerging issues.

Author : Ottavio Quirico,Mouloud Boumghar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317662679

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Climate Change and Human Rights by Ottavio Quirico,Mouloud Boumghar Pdf

Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights? Should fundamental rights constrain climate policies? Scientific evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions contribute to increasing atmospheric temperatures, soon passing the compromising threshold of 2° C. Consequences such as Typhoon Haiyan prove that climate alteration has the potential to significantly impair basic human needs. Although the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and human rights regulatory regimes have so far proceeded separately, awareness is arising about their reciprocal implications. Based on tripartite fundamental obligations, this volume explores the relationship between climate change and interdependent human rights, through the lens of an international and comparative perspective. Along the lines of the metaphor of the ‘wall’, the research ultimately investigates the possibility of overcoming the divide between universal rights and climate change, and underlying barriers. This book aims to be a useful resource not only for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students in international, comparative, environmental law and politics and human rights, but also for the wider public.

Author : Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : ICHRP
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9782940259830

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Climate Change and Human Rights by Stephen Humphreys Pdf

Author : Damilola S. Olawuyi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107105515

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The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance by Damilola S. Olawuyi Pdf

Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.

Author : Bridget Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811319600

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Environmental Human Rights and Climate Change by Bridget Lewis Pdf

This book examines the current status of environmental human rights at the international, regional, and national levels and provides a critical analysis of possible future developments in this area, particularly in the context of a changing climate. It examines various conceptualisations of environmental human rights, including procedural rights relating to the environment, constitutional environmental rights, the environmental dimensions of existing human rights such as the rights to water, health, food, housing and life, and the notion of a stand-alone human right to a healthy environment. The book addresses the topic from a variety of perspectives, drawing on underlying theories of human rights as well as a range of legal, political, and pragmatic considerations. It examines the scope of current human rights, particularly those enshrined in international and regional human rights law, to explore their application and enforceability in relation to environmental problems, identifying potential barriers to more effective implementation. It also analyses the rationale for constitutional recognition of environmental rights and considers the impact that this area of law has had, both in terms of achieving stronger environmental protection and environmental justice, as well as in influencing the development of human rights law more generally. The book identifies climate change as the key environmental challenge facing the global community, as well as a major cause of negative human rights impacts. It examines the contribution that environmental human rights might make to rights-based approaches to climate change.

Author : Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford,Mac Darrow,Lavanya Rajamani
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780821387238

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Human Rights and Climate Change by Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford,Mac Darrow,Lavanya Rajamani Pdf

This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights, examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers arguments about (i) the human rights impacts of climate change at a macro level and how these impacts are spread disparately across countries; (ii) how climate change impacts human rights enjoyment within states and the equity and discrimination dimensions of those disparate impacts; and (iii) the role of international legal frameworks and mechanisms, including human rights instruments, particularly in the context of supporting developing countries’ adaptation efforts. The Study surveys the interface of human rights and climate change from the perspective of public international law. It builds upon the work that has been carried out on this interface by reviewing the legal issues it raises and complementing existing analyses by providing a comprehensive legal overview of the area and a focus on obligations upon States and other actors connected with climate change. The objective has therefore been to contribute to the global debate on climate change and human rights by offering a review of the legal dimensions of this interface as well as a survey of the sources of public international law potentially relevant to climate change and human rights in order to facilitate an understanding of what is meant, in legal terms, by “human rights impacts of climate change” and help identify ways in which international law can respond to this interaction.

Author : Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521762762

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Human Rights and Climate Change by Stephen Humphreys Pdf

This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.

Author : Dimitra Manou,Andrew Baldwin,Dug Cubie,Anja Mihr,Teresa Thorp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317222330

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Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights by Dimitra Manou,Andrew Baldwin,Dug Cubie,Anja Mihr,Teresa Thorp Pdf

Climate Change already having serious impacts on the lives of millions of people across the world. These impacts are not only ecological, but also social, economic and legal. Among the most significant of such impacts is climate change-induced migration. The implications of this on human rights raise pressing questions, which require serious scholarly reflection. Drawing together experts in this field, Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights offers a fresh perspective on human rights law and policy issues in the climate change regime by examining the interrelationships between various aspects of human rights, climate change and migration. Three key themes are explored: understanding the concepts of human dignity, human rights and human security; the theoretical nexus between human rights, climate change and migration or displacement; and the practical implications and challenges for lawyers and policy-makers of protecting human dignity in the face of climate change and displacement. The book also includes a series of case studies from Alaska, Bangladesh, Kenya and the Pacific islands which aim to improve our understanding of the theoretical and practical implications of climate change for human rights and migration. This book will be of great interest to scholars of environmental law and policy, human rights law, climate change, and migration and refugee studies.

Author : Tracey Skillington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137022813

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Climate Justice and Human Rights by Tracey Skillington Pdf

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of procedures of natural resource management and problem resolution amongst self-determining communities. It looks at how increasing human vulnerability to climate destruction forms the basis of a new peoples-powered demand for greater climate justice, as well as a global movement for preventative action and reflexive societal learning.

Author : Markus Kaltenborn,Markus Krajewski,Heike Kuhn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9783030304690

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Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights by Markus Kaltenborn,Markus Krajewski,Heike Kuhn Pdf

This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches but also seeks to close gaps which would remain if only one perspective would be at the center of the discussions. Specifically, the book shows the strong connections between human rights and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Already the preamble of this document explicitly states that "the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ... seek to realise the human rights of all". Moreover, several goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda correspond to already existing individual human rights obligations. The contributions of this volume therefore also address how the implementation of human rights and SDGs can reinforce each other, but also point to critical shortcomings of the different approaches.

Author : Julia Neumann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783640801695

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Human Rights and Climate Change by Julia Neumann Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: B+, University of Auckland (Law Faculty), course: Climate Change Law, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the linkage of international human rights and climate change. It focuses on the approach to deduce legal claims in the form of compensations and concrete measures from international human rights in the course of impairments through climate change. This paper shall give a short overview on the issue climate change in general, including its causes, effects and the current political strategies. It furthermore provides a synopsis on how human rights are impaired by global warming and climate change effects. Unfortunately, this essay will come to the conclusion that the international human rights approach struggles with functioning as a solitary legal basis in that context and with stepping beyond the just moral implication. Human rights’ legislative potential rather lies 'in the development of more encompassing and more inclusive legal and political strategies. Human rights may advisably be instrumentalized to strengthen political debates and be used as an incitement to set up enforceable and balanced agreements on reasonable measures of equalization and support.

Author : Vesselin Popovski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351815789

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The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change by Vesselin Popovski Pdf

In December 2015, 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human- induced climate change. The Paris Agreement will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2020, and it creates legally binding obligations on the parties, based on their own bottom-up voluntary commitments to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The codification of the climate change regime has advanced well, but the implementation of it remains uncertain. This book focuses on the implementation prospects of the Agreement, which is a challenge for all and will require a fully comprehensive burden- sharing framework. Parties need to meet their own NDCs, but also to finance and transfer technology to others who do not have enough. How equity- based and facilitative the process will be, is of crucial importance. The volume examines a broad range of issues including the lessons that can be learnt from the implementation of previous environmental legal regimes, climate policies at national and sub-national levels and whether the implementation mechanisms in the Paris Agreement are likely to be sufficient. Written by leading experts and practitioners, the book diagnoses the gaps and lays the ground for future exploration of implementation options. This collection will be of interest to policy-makers, academics, practitioners, students and researchers focusing on climate change governance.

Author : William C. G. Burns,Hari M. Osofsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521879705

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Adjudicating Climate Change by William C. G. Burns,Hari M. Osofsky Pdf

This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world. It can serve as a resource for those interested in the problem of climate change and in the role that courts are playing in climate regulation. The chapters analyze examples of cases in state, national, and international tribunals, as well as this litigation's broader significance.

Author : Linda Hajjar Leib
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004188648

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Human Rights and the Environment by Linda Hajjar Leib Pdf

The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights.

Author : John H. Knox,Ramin Pejan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108421195

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The Human Right to a Healthy Environment by John H. Knox,Ramin Pejan Pdf

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.