Human Rights and Climate Change : A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

The study includes a conceptual overview of the link between climate impacts and human rights, focused on the relevant legal obligations underpinning the international law frameworks governing both human rights and climate change. As such it makes...

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Main Authors:	McInerney-Lankford, Siobhan, Darrow, Mac, Rajamani, Lavanya
Format:	Publication
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION ADEQUATE FOOD ADEQUATE PROTECTION AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION APPLICABLE LAW ARBITRARY DETENTION ARMED CONFLICTS ATMOSPHERE BASES BASIS OF RACE CARBON CHILD DEATH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHILD PROSTITUTION CLEAN TECHNOLOGY CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS CLIMATE DISASTERS CLIMATE POLICIES CLIMATE RESPONSE CLIMATE SYSTEM CO COLORS COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE CULTURAL RIGHTS DEGRADING TREATMENT DESERTIFICATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISABILITY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTERS DISCRIMINATION DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN DISEASES DISSEMINATION DOMESTIC LAW DRINKING WATER DROUGHT ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ECONOMIC RIGHTS ELDERLY EMISSION EMISSION REDUCTION EMISSION REDUCTION MEASURES EMISSIONS EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION EMISSIONS REDUCTION EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EQUAL PARTICIPATION ETHICAL PRINCIPLES EXPOSURE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FINANCIAL SYSTEM FLOODS FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD SECURITY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREST FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION FOSSIL FUELS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FUTURE GENERATIONS GENDER DIFFERENCES GENOCIDE GHG GHGS GLACIERS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL COMPACT GLOBAL WARMING GOOD FAITH GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GAS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROUNDS OF RACE HEALTH BURDEN HEALTH CARE HEALTH RISKS HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT HUMAN BEINGS HUMAN COMMUNITIES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DIGNITY HUMAN HEALTH HUMAN NEEDS HUMAN RIGHT HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS HUMAN WELFARE ICE SHEETS ILL HEALTH ILLNESS IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE INCOME INEQUALITY INDIGENOUS GROUPS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL COVENANT INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL TREATIES IPCC LABOUR MARKET LAND DEGRADATION LARGE POPULATIONS LEADING CAUSES LEGAL AUTHORITY LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL OBLIGATION LEGAL STATUS LIFESTYLES LINGUISTIC MINORITIES LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MALARIA MANDATES MENTAL HEALTH MIGRANT MIGRANT WORKERS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MINORITY MORTALITY NATIONAL BORDERS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL SECURITY NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE IMPACTS NUMBER OF PEOPLE NUTRITION OZONE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN PEACE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PERSONAL CAPACITY PHYSICAL INTEGRITY POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POLITICAL RIGHTS POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION GROUPS POPULATION GROWTH PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRESS QUALITY OF WATER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION REGIONAL AGREEMENTS RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RESPECT RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATES RIGHT TO EDUCATION RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE RIGHT TO LIFE RIGHTS OF PERSONS RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES RIGHTS OF WOMEN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE SAFE DRINKING WATER SANITATION SCENARIOS SEA LEVEL SOCIAL COUNCIL SOCIAL POLICIES SOCIAL PROBLEMS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIES STORM SURGES STORMS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TEMPERATURE TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES TREATIES TREATY TROPICAL CYCLONES UNEP UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE POPULATIONS WATER RESOURCES WATER SUPPLIES WEATHER CONDITIONS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
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Summary:	The study includes a conceptual overview of the link between climate impacts and human rights, focused on the relevant legal obligations underpinning the international law frameworks governing both human rights and climate change. As such it makes a significant contribution to the global debate on climate change and human rights by offering a comprehensive analysis of the international legal dimensions of this intersection. The study helps advance an understanding of what is meant, in legal and policy terms, by the human rights impacts of climate change through examples of specific substantive rights. It gives a legal and theoretic perspective on the connection between human rights and climate change along three dimensions: first, human rights may affect the enjoyment of human rights. Second, measures to address human rights may impact the realization of rights and third, that human rights have potential relevance to policy and operational responses to climate change, and may promote resilience to climate change, including in developing countries in a way that may help sustainable development. This study effectively consolidates knowledge from the fields of international human rights law, international law governing climate change and international environmental law, building on the existing work of the United Nation (UN) office of the high commissioner on human rights, the UN human rights council and the international council on human rights policy. Although it maintains a legal focus, the study has benefited from the input of a host of international experts from other disciplines as well.

Human Rights and Climate Change : A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

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